What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading
This week, Tracy Chapman and Joni Mitchell made many of us cry happy tears; three of the biggest media companies joined forces to corner the sports streaming market; and the country music world bid farewell to Toby Keith.
Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team, on Netflix
The "Sniper" franchise, which started in 1993 on the back of Tom Berenger, iswhich came out in 2023, is the most recent installment. This is a decades-long, "Chucky"-level stable mythology that's now on the back of Ryan Robbins and Chad Michael Collins. This is like DTV action at its most tongue-in-cheek fun. You have a "Fast and the Furious"-style family ensemble — and they're making jokes, cracking one-liners, doing cool fight choreography. They've got snipers accomplishing impossible feats of derring-do. This is Dad movie supreme.
