Disney+'s family cooking competition Be Our Chef is either dystopia or balm, depending on your current anxiety levels. A zany half-hour where neat little nuclear families zip around a set kitchen professing their love to the House of Mouse almost feels like a Simpsons (or Bébé's Kids)-style parody of zombified Disney Magic™.
Almost. Even for us Disney true believers, the 10-part series may challenge our patience for pat corporate synergy, but given the global uncertainty of the moment, Be Our Chef is the low-stakes, low-impact entertainment I personally need right now.
Unlike a lot of other television shows I'm typically glued to, this one has no impending apocalypse in need of evading, no crumbling world in need of saving.
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