The Sublime Sweetness of “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”

The TV musical that isn’t really one

“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” hearkens back to old-school movie musicals with large-scale dance numbers.

Musicals have been part of popular culture for more than a century — much, much longer if you count the heavily lyrical productions in Ancient Greece. Countless commentators have pondered and occasionally mocked the format. What does it mean? Are musicals set in some alternate reality in which everyone…