THE MUPPETS MAYHEM: Season One

Here is the decision. The Muppets are back, and this time the Electric Mayhem gets the spotlight — ten half-hour episodes of house-crashing, road trips, hit tunes, and the kind of gentle chaos this band has always trailed behind it. It's fun, it's warm, and it carries a real message: honesty matters, family matters, and reconciliation is worth the work.

The cautions are light but worth naming. There are a few mild sexual comments and some near-kisses, no foul language, and a little upper-body nudity played for laughs. The band throws unpermitted parties and vandalizes a house, and the hippie Janice brings some New Age spirituality — meditation and talk of people's "auras."

So: if you have older children and enjoy the Muppets, this is an easy, happy yes. If you're watching with the very young, sit close for a couple of moments — but this one belongs on your family's list.

Nora dreams big. She wants to be a real music producer, but as an assistant to executive Penny Waxman she spends her days filing papers instead of making records.

Then she finds an old contract for an album the Muppets' band, the Electric Mayhem, never made. Paper in hand, she tracks the band down — and, eager to launch her career, introduces herself as a producer she isn't quite yet. The lazy, lovable mischief-makers say yes, and Nora's wild ride begins.

Four stars, and they're earned the old-fashioned Muppet way: it's simply a delight. The Electric Mayhem are perfect company — hopping from place to place, throwing parties, singing wherever they land — and the show keeps the energy bright across all ten episodes.

The guest list helps. Morgan Freeman, Paula Abdul, Chris Stapleton, and Ryan Seacrest all turn up, and the series wears its celebrity cameos lightly. Underneath the fun is a story that actually goes somewhere: Nora, worked hard by her chaotic new clients, slowly learns to love them. It's a fun, entertaining watch that never forgets to have a point.

This is a warm-hearted show with a strong moral spine and some genuinely redemptive touches. Its convictions are the ones a Christian family will recognize: honesty over spin, family over ambition, and reconciliation over grudges.

The honesty theme is the sharpest. Nora believes that "boldfaced lies are the backbone of the entertainment industry" — and the show flatly disagrees. When Janice suffers a life-threatening allergic reaction to lying, deceit is condemned in the plainest terms, and Nora learns to be real and genuine with the people she loves only after facing the cost of her dishonesty. Reconciliation runs alongside it: when Nora fights with her sister, Janice works patiently until the two are restored, admitting that "sometimes the people you love let you down." Other characters, too, work through their conflicts in healthy, loving ways.

Parents will want to note the light pagan spirituality woven into Janice, the resident hippie, who meditates and reads people's "auras." It's mild, but it's there, and it sits at odds with where a family would point its children.

The show's true longing is for honesty and restored relationship — and Scripture names both as the way of the redeemed: "Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor" (Ephesians 4:25).

The Muppets have always been sweeter than they let on, and Season One of THE MUPPETS MAYHEM proves it again — bright, funny, and quietly serious about honesty and family. A couple of mild moments mean the youngest may want a parent close, but for most families this is an easy, happy worth watching.