![]() ![]() Look, these are trying times for all of us. Anyway, then the winner has to choose between two bags of cash, and if they choose the bag that isn’t a cake, they win. This happens near the end of each episode and it always comes as a shock because it’s the first time that the cake gets treated like food, and not just an elaborate optical illusion for the delight of some idiots at home. In the event of a tie, the judges eat the cake to see which tastes best. Then some judges come in and have to guess whether the cake is real or not. The bakers are all highly skilled and reveal the products and processes that can transform a cake into a thing. If you wanted to be unnecessarily picky and find a part of Is It Cake? that has any intellectual worth at all, this is it. The bulk of the show, however, takes the form of a fever dream Bake Off, where the contestants have to try to bake a cake that looks like something that isn’t a cake. Highly skilled … Desiree Salaverria, one of the contestants on Is It Cake? Photograph: Adam Rose/Netflix But it’s also worth pointing out that if this is the case you are spiritually dead. It’s worth pointing out that if your idea of entertainment doesn’t involve watching a man trying to chop a shoe in half before shouting “It is shoe! Not cake!” in defeat, you will get nothing from the show. Mikey Day (the SNL cast member on hosting duty), then tests whether it’s cake or not by chopping it up with his sword (at least for episode one, before they replace it with a knife later in the series). Instead, Is It Cake? has bulked things out by handing a member of the Saturday Night Live cast a samurai sword.įirst, contestants have to inspect a bunch of stuff on some plinths and guess which one of them is a cake. Obviously Is It Cake? cannot simply be a remake of the viral videos, because that would just be several hours of people revealing that things that don’t look like cakes are actually cake, which would probably get old after about 20 seconds. I am almost certainly much stupider than I was a couple of days ago. I am full of regret and dreading the consequences. I currently feel the same way I do after eating too much ice-cream. I went into the first episode with my expectations in the toilet, then ended up wolfing down the whole stupid series in one go. So it gives me no joy to inform you that Is It Cake? may be the most pure brainless fun that has ever been created. Is it a shoe or a cake? Photograph: Adam Rose/Netflix ![]()
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