{"id":7125,"date":"2019-11-22T18:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2019-11-22T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:14:33","slug":"new-series-merry-happy-whatever-debuts-thursday-november-28-on-netflix-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/new-series-merry-happy-whatever-debuts-thursday-november-28-on-netflix-video\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series! &#8220;Merry Happy Whatever&#8221; Debuts Thursday, November 28 on Netflix [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7126\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/merry-happy-whatever-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Merry Happy Whatever<\/strong><\/em> follows Don Quinn (Dennis Quaid), a strong-willed patriarch from Philadelphia doing his best to balance the stress of the holidays with the demands of his close-knit but eclectic family \u2014 and his family doing their best to manage him. 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