If you watch Is This a Cake over the holiday weekend? 》 Season 2, you are not alone. The cooking competition show quickly climbed to the top of Netflix's top 10 TV shows after premiering on June 30, behind only the returning "The Witcher." This makes sense! It's fun to watch the care and skill that goes into making delicious deceptive candies. Although it's a fun and often drama-free alternative to other unscripted offerings, Is It the Cake? 》 There is an element. This elicited an enthusiastic response from the audience.
To recap, the show's basic premise is a lot like what you'd see on various cake TikToks: Can you (or in this case, the judges) tell the difference between a hyperreal cake and the object it's trying to imitate? The total prize money here is $120,000 - so while this is a really fun contest, it can also be life-changing.
That's probably why domestic viewers are so keen on one rule change in particular: contestants can change the warnings on their "baits," or non-cake items, to help improve the chances of their cakes fooling the judges. They can do this by painting over other items, such as a flashlight, to throw off the censorship and make the real thing look a little fake.
It should be noted that this gimmick is allowed under the rules of Is It Cake? rule. As host Mikey Day explained to The Hollywood Reporter after a Season 1 contestant was accused of cheating, "Changing the bait is allowed and part of it. You can mess with the bait a little bit."
While it's a perfectly legal part of the gameplay, many "is this cake?" viewers weren't happy about the leak - as evidenced by their tweets over the holiday weekend.
Or even one of the “Is this a cake?” Contestants contributed to the conversation. Liz Marek, who was sent home in episode 3 of the latest season, recently opened up to Bustle about her elimination. "The whole point of the game is how realistic you can make [the cake] look [compared to] the decoy," she said. "But the game also works sometimes with luck. The judges freak out, they guess, and sometimes their guesses go against you." (On the show, Liz seemed to spend most of her time creating realistic fabric looks for the cakes on - a bunch of college jerseys - but little spent on change bait).
Only time will tell if there is an " Is It Cake"? Season 3 – and whether the decoy rules will change in time for the next installment.
