What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading, watching and listening

"Subspace Rhapsody" is a special musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's episode 9 of Season 2, and most shows wait a bit longer to pull out a stunt like this — but turns out it actually works.

This week we paid homage to an epic summer trifecta, saw new efforts to unionize in Hollywood, and bid farewell to DJ Casper, William Friedkin and Mark Margolis.

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

Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan