Could of read, watched something good or just taken a walk but no, had to waste a precious hour of my life on the new Netflix show Is it Cake? which turns the pandemic trend of similacrum cake art into yet another competitive, “reality” TV show.
Is it Cake? is hyperactive, annoying and unfunny while constantly reminding you that it’s hyperactive, annoying and unfunny. It could just be the show at the end of history that portends the imminent eclipse of civilization. Watch just one episode and you’re ready to return to the pre-dawn of human consciousness, foraging tubers with your bare hands, unaware of your own mortality.
And yet you’ll be tempted to skip to the last two episodes which will plunge you into the extremes of post-modern skepticism. In the penultimate show, you’ll find out that the final bake-off involves making a cake that is a simulation of cake, which leads the contestants in the show to question if everything is, in fact, made of cake, that we’re living in a vast cake simulation.
In the the last episode the losing contestants, angry at missing out on the $10,000 prize and driven mad with their epistemological cake crisis, set out to slice the meta-obnoxious host in half with a Katana sword to see if he is, in fact, cake. They then stumble out of the studio, armed with more swords, machetes and knives, to slice open everything and everyone in sight to test their thesis that reality itself is make of cake. We the viewers, caught up in the cake or not cake question smash up our smart TVs to find out if they are made of cake only to discover that they are not cake and the cycle ends.
But then, too distracted to read a book, we open our laptops to this very blog post which concludes with the revelation that someone paid, via Cameo, the famous for being famous (rappers? unususual hair dudes?) Island Boy twins to read a passage from Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle.
The Island Boi’s Present: A Spoken Word Presentation of Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle”
I can’t believe this just happened the world is very weird#IslandBoys #flyysoulja #Kodiyakredd #IslandBois #guydebord #spectacle pic.twitter.com/cOlGIOmo0l
— Sterling Crispin 🕊️ (@sterlingcrispin) October 24, 2021
And the cycle begins again.
LOL my 7 year old son found the cake show this weekend and is enamored and now I’m afraid he thinks I have extraordinary baking skills and wants to make one and *facepalm*
Ha! Hopefully you’ll avoid the Cake Wrecks website.
Ah yes… my 8 year old just found this show, too and is obsessed with making some fancy confetti cake. I.just.can’t.