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

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: Fargo Season 5, the shows Only Connect and Siren: Survive the Island, and Muppet Show's "Chicken Western."
Scotty Lyon (Sienna King), left, and Dorothy "Dot" Lyon (Juno Temple) in Season 5 of <em>Fargo</em>.

This week, we learned about the Met Gala theme, which will mostly be ignored, Jon Stewart came back and Beyoncé got (more) into country.

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

Fargo

The latest season of just wrapped up last month and I loved it. Season 5 follows Dot, a young mother played by Juno Temple, who, it turns out, escaped years earlier from an abusive cult-like marriage to a brutal

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