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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: The show Homicide: Life on the Street, the film The Taste of Things and the novel Poor Things is based on.
    by Aisha Harris Feb 23, 2024 2 minutes
    Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) in <em>The Taste of Things</em>.

    This week, Jack McCoy left the building, Wolfman wanted compensation, and a baffling idea for an intellectual property extension rolled on.

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

    Poor Things, the novel by Alasdair Gray

    The Oscar-nominated movie is of the same name by Scottish author Aladair Gray. I love this book so much. I

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