Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
They turn out to be cake.
And the Netflix show is … well, it does exist, so its got that going for it.
Still, its hard not to watch and think,I do not care about any of this.
So much ofIs It Cakeis spent on something other than cutting up stuff!
Its a set, prepared ahead of time, made to resemble any number of different spaces.
Production could really get creative here.
The opportunities here are really endless.
So this excited contestant is led into the space, blindfolded.
The lights are down.
It comes off as just a regular, unexciting art gallery, or airplane, or library.
But somewhere in this setting, one of these objects … is cake.
A nearby studio audience begins to cheer.
An enormous countdown clock begins flashing: There are 90 seconds on the clock.
The host hands our contestant a knife (could also be a sword), and yells, Find!
Cake!Chaos reigns.
It could become a game about racking up points, with several cakes hidden throughout the set.
Points could be deducted for everything a contestant slices that does not end up being cake.
More cake, but also more opportunities to wonder if something is cake.
Sure, this is not especially practical.
And yeah, maybe there are some obstacles that would need to be overcome from a production standpoint.
Theres the construction of all of these elaborate sets, for one thing.
Is it likely that anyone will now start developinganothershow based on whether things are cake?
What could make this idea better?
Because the odds are good that your answer is going to be more knives.
