Great British Bake Off

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On 02/12/2023 at 09:12, gunnar hendershow said:

Not a single comment all season. How times have changed.

I thought it was a pretty good season all told, some very fun bakers. Saku obviously the best, may she gets invited back for specials often. Alison was enjoyable as the new host, etc. Glad they realized the ethnic weeks were pretty tacky. There was only one truly terrible technical and it wasn't down to a lack of skill, it was down to them giving everyone 15 less minutes than they should've.

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I was realizing in the semifinals that Matty was taking every bit of feedback whereas Josh and Dan were basically stagnant - they came in as good as they finished. And I went "hmm I seem to recall Paul & Prue love it when a baker listens to them". Matty looked like a guy who was going out in week 5 or week 6 at the start, hung on, and then the last few weeks survived because other bakers bottled it (poor Tasha).

And then he evidently had a near perfect final showstopper. Still surprised it wasn't Josh, who was better start-to-finish than anyone but they love editing this show in a way where they can sneak in the surprise winners from time to time.

Congrats to Matty and his classical Greek sculpture physique.

 

I didn't have time to watch it until the last couple of days.

Mostly agree with your comments. Wish Tasha hadn't blown her last showstopper, though. I was hoping she'd make the finals.