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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.”

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.

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

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.”

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.