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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: Vanderpump Rules recaps, the book The Worst Ronin, and a duet by Pavarotti and Celine Dion.
    by Wailin Wong May 10, 2024 3 minutes
    If you love <em>Vanderpump Rules</em> you will love <a href="https://www.vulture.com/tv/vanderpump-rules/">Brian Moylan's recaps of the show.</a> Above, Scheana Shay, left, Ariana Madix and Lala Kent.

    This week, a love story got a sequel, another paper company lined up for its big moment, and a Chicago music legend was remembered.

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

    Brian Moylan's Vanderpump Rules recaps on Vulture

    just had its season finale, and I wanted to shout out Brian Moylan, who does for Brian's recaps are hilarious and he analyzes the show and the characters through the lensare going to keep working together after a couple of them poisoned the whole environment. I'm an economics reporter, so I enjoy stories about people's relationships to their work. This is a labor story. On a lot of reality shows cast members are much more co-workers than friends or romantic partners, but that's often more subtext than text. actually makes it text, and then Brian does a marvelous, funny job of talking about it from that lens.

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