Review: Restore your faith in humanity with Disney's alien talk show, 'Earth to Ned'

I was stumbling recently through the thicket we call television when I came upon the sunny clearing that is "Earth to Ned," streaming since September on Disney+. Having already written about the year's two previous Muppet-related series — "The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo" on HBO Max" and "Muppets Now," also on Disney+ — it seemed only right, even belatedly, to review this third, from Brian Henson and the Jim Henson Company, in which a four-armed alien sent to invade Earth instead falls in love with it. Also, I liked it a lot; it made me happy, with its dry humor leavened with a pinch of sentimentality or, as