In praise of ‘The Masked Singer,’ TV’s last uniter

This year’s post-Super Bowl program makes a beautiful sort of sense: It’s hard to imagine a more perfect pairing for the NFL than “The Masked Singer.”

That’s true both pragmatically -- it’s the biggest hit on Fox’s air right now, so why not let it and the most-watched broadcast of the year pump each other up -- and aesthetically. “The Masked Singer” has all the gleeful, slick brainlessness that characterizes America’s most popular sport, the same triumphant sense of production exerting control over potential chaos. And it has none of...