Nailed It

For this week’s blog post I chose to watch the Netflix’s Original Nailed It. Which is a baking competition show where the contestants attempt to make professional like desserts. The series provides short thirty minute episodes. So these bakers are trying to “nail” the dessert that they are recreating. There are three total rounds of baking different kinds of desserts. At the end of each show, the winner receives 10,000 dollars as the cash prize. These at home bakers are generally not able to even come close to the desserts that they are replicating. In the first episode, they are making cake pops in different shapes. One of the bakers chose to make two different sets of lips on her cake pops, and the end product looked really nothing like lips at all. So it’s definitely entertaining to see the attempts that they make.

It really is the great amount of distance between the professional’s dessert and the contestants desserts that is the most entertaining part of the show. It also feels as if the contestants know they are going to fail, and really are just trying fail the least out of everyone else in the competition. Possibly though, the expectations are set too high and really only a professional baker would be able to accomplish such hard tasks. In all reality, the show probably wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if they made it easier on the contestants. The best part of the show is seeing the contestants royally fail.

While watching Nailed It you definitely get the feeling that you could easily be on this show. The people are extremely amateur and are even given recipes to follow when baking in the competition. The judges are very kind and encouraging when the people don’t do very well which also makes me believe I could be on the show. The judges mainly just laugh at the desserts that contestants provide for them. It seems to be a very fun and relaxed environment. It definitely made me feel pretty good about my own baking as well. While watching I definitely felt like I could have done better than most of the contestants, but that is probably easier said than done.

Overall, this show is a very quick and easy watch. The hosts and judges are guaranteed to make you laugh, and i’m sure you will definitely enjoy it.