Is Charlie Brown, of all people, a purveyor of toxic positivity? That certainly wasn’t the case for decades of comic strips and (to a lesser extent) TV specials and feature films, where Charles M. Schulz’s iconic everykid lost every baseball game,

NEW YORK — Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to sleepaway camp in a new, bittersweet Apple TV+ special fueled by a pair of Emmy Award-nominated songwriters that’s being billed as the first “Peanuts” musical in 35 years.

For the first time since “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” dropped back in 1967 (if we except the ‘revision’ that released 1999), there is a new musical special in Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts franchise.