Nailed It!, the cooking competition for amateur bakers with zero talent

Aren't you sick of The Great British Bake-Off, and its less aristocratic cousin, The Great Australian Bake-Off, and all the celebratory positivity these shows keep sending out into the world? Aren't you fed up with seeing ordinary people make their dreams come true and prove their baking skills in heartwarming pastry journeys punctuated by sweet encouragement from expert judges? Haven't you just about had enough of watching baking competitions where the winner is great at baking, and the runners-up are really good at baking, and all the others are actually pretty good at baking? Don't you long for a show where everyone sucks and the judges openly laugh at their incompetence? My friends, Netflix has come to your rescue.

Nailed It! is the show for everyone who ever dreamed of being a famous master baker, but eventually realised they had absolutely no talent and gave up on that dream entirely.

Season 1 A luckless baker on Nailed It!.?Supplied by Netflix.
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Hosted by the bubbly and gleefully insensitive Nicole Byer, the show takes ordinary home bakers and gets them to show exactly how ordinary they are. Because these aren't the amateur geniuses that shows like Bake-Off showcase: these people are seriously, irretrievably awful at baking.

Luckily, they are aware of this fact, so it doesn't end up like the opening episodes of American Idol.

In each episode three bakers are asked to recreate spectacular baked goods, their efforts to be judged by celebrity cakesmith Jacques Torres and a guest judge, and the most successful will win $10,000. "Most successful" is a relative term, as the winner never comes up with anything actually good, just slightly less nightmarish than their rivals.

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