brain candy

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Reality shows like “Survivor” and “The Challenge” “really started to incentivize bad behavior,” says Susie Meister, co-host of “The Brain Candy Podcast,” who witnessed this shift firsthand as a cast member on “Road Rules” in 1998 and a competitor on multiple seasons of “The Challenge.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

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