I watch it bootleg via a link from r/UKTVLAND on reddit. It’s pretty easy.

Laura didn’t belong in the final. There were better and more innovating bakers that got knocked out sooner - in no particular order Hermine, Mark, Lottie, and Sura.

I’m not sure anyone has ever failed upward on this show as hard as Laura. 

So totally the right take.

That schedule and weather made for inconsistent bakes throughout the show.  Every contestant had a day where they were in the running to leave.  Hermine had a truly crap day.  Laura managed to avoid being the very worst baker in 9 of the 10 weeks.  Perhaps Hermine can parlay this into something.  Other…

Entirely self-taught, Rowan calls his baking style ostentatious but, he hopes, tasteful. French pâtisserie is his absolute passion; he loves the subtlety of flavour and the style and sophistication of French baking, and he is drawn to fine, complex, layered cakes. His love of the Georgian era encourages him to…

. . . literally nobody in America gives ̶t̶w̶o̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶p̶s̶  even a single crap about Prue Leith.

This is the logical step of where we should be by now. The show is a success, there are new hosts who frustratingly overcommit to a bit that should have never made it to the air. Paul’s thing is that he’s a jerk, Prue’s thing is outfits? I guess?

The talent was a wasteland this year. Peter deserved to win king of the…

We don’t get Extra Slice over here! I’m also a purist, and like approaching the show the same way I did before it turned into a huge to-do. Part of the allure for me is the quaintness of it all, and I try to ignore the fact it’s blown up into a massive global franchise. 

Allison, if you love Rowan, then you need to (and I cannot stress this enough) watch Extra Slice.

I didn’t know who Prue Leith was, but as soon as I saw that she’s an 80 something year old rich white lady from South Africa I figured she was probably...problematic at best.

Didn’t even bother to watch the finale. Overall poor talent pool, the new host is annoying, the things they made didn’t even look appealing, and overall the judging was terrible.  I read the other recap, and what was the point of carrying Laura to the final only to watch her yet again suffer?  I place that poor…

I think this season’s weaknesses can probably be linked to the relatively shallow casting pool: it’s likely that fewer people applied this year because they’d need to be willing to stay away from home - and their families - for, potentially, several weeks. So that could explain why the standard of baking was a bit…

I’m glad that everyone’s final bakes were good, so that they all got to finish with something they were proud of.

Granted, the show did kinda peter out there towards the end, but any GBBO is better than no GBBO.  Noel was the MVP of this season.  The producers also either need to invest in industrial air conditioning units or rethink the logic behind doing certain challenges in the midst of summer.  No one wins when half the…

I think it confused me because he is practically identical to the Dave from last year, who was gay. So they fused in my mind.

The best, most awkward part was when she thought he was coming over to tell her a joke (for those that don’t watch Extra Slice, there are some jokes and humerus bits throughout).

back when this season started, i remember nearly wanting to cry from the sheer joy of seeing something so beloved and soothing foist its way onto the tv screen, pandemic be damned. it’s a rare thing to be so disappointed by the end of something i started off so happy with, but, here we are. i miss hermine, i laughed…

I think that since the cast changes, people are always looking for Bake Off to be disappointing. This season was sometimes chaotic, but full of lovely competitors as usual. I don’t watch Bake Off to see who wins (they only win a cake stand for crying out loud—it’s obviously not a super competitive environment), I…

Dave proposed to his girlfriend live in the studio on the spin-off show ‘Extra Slice’. It was as awkward as you’d expect.