What a great finale episode.
The bakes were all really creative.
So happy with the winner. Actually i would've been happy with any of the three finalists. So much emotion from all three contestants when the winner was announced. So lovely to see the other two totally happy for the winner. Also so lovely to hear the comments from the family members about how proud they were of each person.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
I know you were careful not to give away any spoilers in your post so I'll do the same (even though the outcome was actually known a year ago).
My favorite part was when Nadiya, who simply could not stop crying, pointed to the plate and flowers and then pointed to herself without saying a word. She was adorable.
I was very happy to see all 3 finalists do really well in the Showstopper. In another season I watched, it was very obvious that one of the bakers had done light years better than the other 2 so this one was really suspenseful.
I just can't get enough of this show and am so anxious for PBS to air the next one.
Even though this aired a year ago in GB and online there are lots of US viewers who just watch it on PBS, so i thought i'd be nice. Actually anyone who hadn't seen it but clicked on a post titled "finale" should expect to find out... but still.
I actually already knew the winner when i started watching because i read it on twitter when it happened. I enjoy the show week to week to see the bakes and follow the journeys of all the contestants. It really was a tight race this time once they got down to the final 5 or 6.
Regardless of who wins or whether you know or not who it will be, the show is just such an absolute pleasure to watch. I love that they compete for the honor rather than a cash prize. And i also love that they are all such delightful people all the way through to the end. No manufactured drama, no backstabbing, no fake posturing for the cameras. Really the most drama i've ever seen on this show was when that one guy threw his bake in the trash when it didn't come out the way he wanted.
Nadya was just so so sweet all the way through but she was just so overwhelmingly humbled by winning. I loved what her husband and her father said about her. And her kids! But actually the families/spouses of the other two were just as adorable.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
This show, especially the season, is a joy from start to finish. So nice to see a show about real people in a competition acting civilly toward one another. Competition shows in the US feature banal narcissists for the most part. This show features lovely and talented people who I would be honored to know. I want more!
shareI'm guessing but i think this show (maybe all UK reality shows) feature real people "competing" in a very laid back, minimally staged setting. They are there for the competition and not just to be on tv for some bit of fame.
In US reality shows it feels like the contestants are actor wannabees who are just on tv to be on tv and get attention, perhaps to launch themselves into some form of 15 minutes of stardom. Look at the bachelor/bachelorette series. The craziest contestant on one becomes the main character of the other. Or something like Survivor or Big Brother that has really no point other than to show people at their worst.
Also with some competition shows (like The Voice) the judges are the main focus of the show.
There is actually a magazine (like People) that is just for reality tv "stars" and there are at least a few of these people who have turned their time on a reality show into a career. I can't think of her name but one had a short-lived talk show is always on other talk shows and magazine covers.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
All of Gordon Ramsey's American programs are like that. He's been criticized for it, but says the ratings prove the formula works in the US and he has no plan to change. It may be so, but I wish it were not. I love the GBBS because it's NOT like the others we get here.
shareI love all baking competitions but if the GBBO were t become "Americanized", they'd lose me as a viewer and I suspect I wouldn't be the only one. I'm an American but I truly hate what constitutes "reality" TV in this country... it's nothing more than drunken slutty (female AND male) potty-mouthed hooliganism. I try not to be a prude but I've long since passed my saturation point with that kind of behavior because it almost feels like a parody now. The GBBO is an absolute breath of much-needed fresh air and I don't want them to EVER change the way they do it.
Falcon - FF 4 years, and both Nadiya and Tamal have used their “fame” to be columnists and television presenters.
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