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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: For the Culture, The People Who Report More Stress, Dreaming Whilst Black and Little Fires Everywhere.
Adjani Salmon as Kwabena in<em> Dreaming Whilst Black.</em>

This week, authors challenged A.I., Taylor Swift asked you to vote, we learned there would be less dancing.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Little Fires Everywhere, streaming on Hulu

I recently rewatched on Hulu and it turns out that show was even better than I remembered. There are some performances that made me Google if they won any awards. It's such a lovely exploration of motherhood, and grief. There's so many ways

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