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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The TV Show I'd Like To Live In

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you wanted to escape reality and move to a fictional TV world, where would you live? Many are dystopian hellscapes and stressful workplaces. But other TV shows are a fun hang. Today, we're talking about TV shows where we'd like to live — including Game of Thrones, Derry Girls, Parks and Recreation, and Gilligan's Island.

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Many fictional TV shows depict dystopian hellscapes and stressful workplaces. Even sweet little

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New England towns can be hotbeds of weekly murder. But other TV

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shows are a fun hang. Maybe we even watch them wishing we could hang out there in real life. So

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we asked ourselves if we could live inside any fictional TV show, which one would it be? I'm

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Glenn Weldon. And I'm Stephen Thompson. On this episode of NPR's pop culture

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happy hour, we're talking about TV shows we'd like to live in.

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