What's making us happy: What to watch, read and listen to this weekend

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Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the trailer for The Northman, the novel The School for Good Mothers and more.

Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd stars as Amleth and Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga in director Robert Eggers' Viking epicand the film world mourned the loss of director Jean-Marc Vallée.

I don't know what you call this genre – the Viking genre – but if nobody has come up with"Raids and braids" yet, then ™ me. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and somehow, inevitably, Björk. I think Björk plays a witch and maybe also a valkyrie, and that's important to me because it's not just battle and pillage. It's also magic and gods, and that's how it hooks me. It comes out in April.

of Elmo saying"a plastic water bottle and a paper towel roll." I have listened to this at least a dozen times and I crack up every time. This is a sort of near-future speculative fiction novel about a mother, Frida Liu, who leaves her daughter at her house for a couple hours by herself. People find out that she left the kid at home, and this kicks her into a version of child protective services – she's separated from her daughter and sent to a prison-like school that re-educates women to be good mothers.

 

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