“You can smell the sugar in the air. It’s like you’ve stepped back into your childhood.” Zumbo's Just Desserts is a Chocolate Factory-style contest built on the provocation of expertise
In 2019, I went into a deep sugar dive that involved bingeing several shows about sweets:, a series that pits nonprofessional bakers against each other and lovingly ridicules their abominable creations;Zumbo’s Just Dessert
s, a Chocolate Factory-style contest built on the provocation of expertise. The show originally aired on Australia’s Seven Network, and Season 2 hit Netflix in January 2020.Zumbo’s Just DessertHe is basically a Candy Man. The show is part competition and part exhibition, essentially a vessel for Zumbo’s maniacal skills, combining the fantasy of desserts with craftsmanship.
As part of the Zumbo Challenge, as it’s called, Zumbo unveils one of his wild creations. The two bottom contestants must duplicate this dessert’s visual elements and also make it taste good. Much of the show’s suspense rests on these battles. Unlike the amateurs who recreate desserts onand fail miserably, the competitors here do manage to match the aesthetic and vision of Zumbo’s dishes.
These battles are all awe and illusion. In Episode 10, two contestants have to create A TABLE WITH A DRAWER AND TWO BONBONS INSIDE THE DRAWER! AND A PERFUME BOTTLE! The fact that neither of them is able to get the drawer to close properly should not matter because: they had to make a working drawer. It’s amazing what can be constructed out of pieces of sugar and dough.is merely a bite of baking shows with a better format—one viewer described the show as aMasterchef.
As a judge, Zumbo is often too pleased with himself, and both he and Khoo underwhelm in terms of spark. But that’s not what I’m here for; the contestants are skilled and quirky enough to make up for that, the desserts are visually incredible and make me want to jump through the screen, and I love seeing people’s wild imaginations turn into sweets.
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