'Great British Baking Show' 2020 is COVID-free comfort food
LA TimesThe West Coast is on fire. But, hey, at least we have “The Great British Bake-Off” — or, as I am legally required to call it while writing on American soil, “The Great British Baking Show.” Landing like a teeny, tiny cherry atop the giant crap sundae of 2020, the world’s most soothing competition series returns to Netflix today. If the record-setting triumph of “Schitt’s Creek” at Sunday’s Emmys proves anything, it’s that viewers right now are desperate for a bit of TV comfort food. In previous seasons, the highly skilled competitors on “GBBO” have whipped up cakes that looked eerily like picnic baskets, bowls of ramen and BLT sandwiches, so I was surprised that so many of the busts wound up resembling something from “Nailed It!” Marc’s bloated David Bowie will haunt my dreams for weeks to come. And when Paul took a knife to Lottie’s “chocolate and lime Louis Theroux” — which looked alarmingly like a hunchbacked Larry Kramer — I screamed, not for the first time in recent weeks, “What is even happening?” But for once, I laughed too.
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