The Great British Baking Show
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In case you missed it, the Brexit situation in the U.K. has become pretty dire.
Now, chocolate work has a very tenuous history in the tent.
And Alice, an actual Disney princess come to life, is making honeycomb and peanut bars with marshmallow.
The result is a set of perfectly identical biscuits splattered with multiple food colorings and topped with tiny flowers.
They are, in a word, breathtaking.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Maybe the British Parliament needs to screen this specific episode in the House of Lords.
Whos to say?!
Good: After last season, the handshake was starting to become meaningless.
In typical Paul fashion, he provides very little in the way of instructions for the bakers.
Rosie also cant save Helena, who realizes in the last few minutes that she only baked 11 biscuits.
In true creepy Helena fashion, she draws a corpse outline of the missing 12th biscuit.
has created the most identical fig rolls, even if he forgot to squish them a little bit.
Michael is one of the few to nail the flavor.
In this moment, Phils wife decides she wont go through with divorcing him after all.
Anyway, for the Showstopper Challenge, Paul and Prue ask the bakers to create sculptures out of biscuits.
She hopes it helps her out in this challenge!
Michael, too, is going to use spices.
Or just one spice: chili powder, and five teaspoons of it.
When the four-hour challenge comes to an end, Paul and Prue dig deep for ego-busting critiques.
Week-one Star Baker Michelle makes a rare misstep after the Signature Challenge and delivers a clumsy Welsh dragon.
Still, the judges are impressed with her pistachio and cardamom biscuits and the mixture of textures.
Finally, Alice brings up her exceedingly cute sheep in a tiny, coconut-lime shortbread enclosure.
Alice and her wide blue eyes clinch the Star Baker title.
Which means its down to Helena and Jamie.
But, unfortunately, its not enough to beat Helenas witchcraft and immense creativity.
Paul and Prue love her artistically superb spider and its tea-flavored and chocolate biscuits.
Could this be the week they send two bakers home?
Nah, gotta save that for when viewers are properly invested in the inner lives of these contestants.
Or do they call it a crisp?
