What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
NPRWhat's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening toggle caption Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images This week, Justin Timberlake was arrested, Donald Sutherland left us and we found out about a Spaceballs. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. — Bob Mondello Sponsor Message Sabrina Carpenter’s song 'Espresso' and Dan Charnas’ piece: 'The Musical History Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summer' There is a super nerdy and fascinating piece in Slate by Dan Charnas that is ostensibly about Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” but then also explores an entire genre that doesn't quite have a name. — Aisha Harris More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter by Linda Holmes I very much enjoyed Ruth Ware's novel One Perfect Couple, the premise of which is basically that the filming of a Love Island-ish reality show is disrupted by a series of terrible events that eventually include deaths. Beth Novey adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" for the Web.