brain candy

noun

1. informal.
   something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance

Example Sentences

Why streaming services insist on dropping entire seasons of shows like this while dribbling out brain candy like “Love Is Blind” incrementally is beyond me.

From Salon

The New York Times food writer Molly O’Neill called “Tastes of Paradise” “a small dose of mind-sharpening brain candy.”

From New York Times

Sandy reads mostly nonfiction at home, so she travels with fiction: “I take a mix of brain candy, books that I will treat like a box of truffles and just zip through without putting them down, and dense books that will keep me for a few days. While traveling, I read them in order of biggest/heaviest to thinnest/lightest.”

From Washington Post

Time has redeemed "Brain Candy" into a cult classic, and with the debut of these eight Amazon episodes maybe more people will watch their 2010 miniseries "Death Comes to Town," which aired on a pre-"Portlandia" IFC.

From Salon

And some will recognize Don Roritor from the troupe's feature debut in 1995's "Brain Candy," whose flop status the revival embraces by describing in the very first scene as having been "dry heaved into existence because of a dark deal with the devil."

From Salon