It’s December, it’s been a long year and we are all gatvol. Plus it’s the Christmas season!
All the shops are wrinkly, crinkly and dinkly with draped decorations and booze specials. All we want to do is braai, swim, snooze and tap out until, well, as long as possible, definitely until the new year.
Is it Cake? Holiday is total brain rot, zero effort, Netflix saccharine overload.
I love it!
This Christmas watch professional American bakers create hyper-realistic cakes – gawp at oven gloves, baubles, toys, tree stumps — and get judged by fudged B-Grade celebrities who have 20 seconds to decide if the items next to each other are made of plastic or fondant.
It’s four episodes of enthusiasm and manic laughter by the cast and host, Saturday Night Live’s Mikey D, whose psychotic smile and cheesy jokes makes one think. Blink three times if they have taken you hostage.
Have you heard the joke about Mariah Carey, where she is “defrosting” over November to come out once a year at Christmas to sing through mall speakers across the world?
It kind-of feels the same for Mikey D. Is he stuck in the koeked universe? A robot who gets turned off and left on set until the next iteration.
Apparently Mikey gets told through an earpiece exactly and precisely when to slice into the cake. Timing is everything because the knife only plunges once.
Behind the scenes, all the cakes are technically edible, and the Internet gets annoyed when Mikey slices a gorgeous cake and half of it topples to the studio floor. Ca-a-a-ke splort!
One parent even wrote that their 11-year-old had a fury attack every time it happened because it’s wasting food.
I could not find a clear answer as to what happens to the leftovers. Some say it gets sliced by swords for dramatic effect, some sources said it was fed to the crew, or contestants could take it home, others mention donation.
I hope it’s donations because there is So. Much. Cake.
The show is silly, so bright and a little deranged. Perfect December viewing, especially if you’re baking your own Christmas desserts or folding laundry with the TV on.
Plonk your kid who loves confectioneries in front of it because we can all learn some stuff about the Byzantine process of baking. The cakes sound delicious, different flavours and gooey insides, cool techniques and shapes.
The episodes are all around 40 minutes, so it won’t steal your whole weekend. It’s not deep, it’s not clever, but it’s fun.
We are going full Christmas people, what should Poppy review next?
