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Pop Culture Happy Hour

In A Quiet Place: Day One, Lupita Nyong'o makes silence golden

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In the post-apocalyptic world of A Quiet Place, aliens kill anyone who makes a sound, forcing humans into a near-silent existence. The new movie A Quiet Place: Day One takes us back to the beginning, but this time through the eyes of a terminally ill cancer patient played by the excellent Lupita Nyong'o.

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episodes wherever you get your podcasts. If you probably saw a quiet place and its sequel you probably recall the franchise's

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basic concept in a post-apocalyptic, aliens kill anyone who makes a sound, forcing humans

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into a near silent existence. The new prequel, A Quiet Place, Day 1, takes us back to the very

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beginning. This time around though we're seeing it

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all through the eyes of a woman played by the excellent Lupita Nyongo.

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I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about a quiet place day one on

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pop culture happy hour from NPR.

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