Michelle Obama and puppet pals heading to Netflix for new educational kids’ series

Obama is comfortable in this pastel reality, a born kids’ show performer. She has a teacher’s calm, appropriate to the series’ purpose, and a talent for interacting with sometimes overexcitable puppets; she seems interested in what they have to say, and natural in her reactions. Some grown-ups surely will watch just to see her. And “Waffles + Mochi” does offer many of the same pleasures as ordinary travel and food shows — with puppets, so win-win.