Nailed It!

Funny to watch with friends, pretty good for what it is - don't watch when hungry though!

This show is great. Although the tasks are difficult, everyone is light hearted and silly. The participants have ups and downs but they put their best foot forward and don't give up.

The hosts are good at poking fun instead of criticizing the participants. The structure of the show is great and the second round buttons for getting help or messing with your competition keeps it good natured. There are tips to learn but that is not the point.

The guest judges are all great and the regular judges never disappoint.

I've seen a lot of negative reviews of this based on complaints about the host, but I personally love her. In the world of straight-laced cooking shows, the host comes off as spunky and silly and perfectly in tune with the pastel backgrounds. She can be a bit over-the-top at times, but for the most part I find her really enjoyable, and she's an excellent foil to the more serious French chef. The more-advanced baking tips are pretty neat and make me want to try some of these highly-advanced sculpture cakes myself. The cooks who fail are hilarious, the cooks who nail are inspiring, and the judges try to keep things very positive for the most part. An uplifting, cheery, goofy show for anyone who likes baking or cooking.

Nailed it! is one of my guilty pleasure shows. Watching amateur bakers tackle elaborate confections made by master pastry chefs is just so much fun. The confections that the amateurs are supposed to copy are elaborate and well designed, but the real selling point here is the glorious train wrecks that our contestants turn them into. The show does a great job at lingering on the stumbling without feeling as though it's being mean spirited. Thanks in no small part to Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres as well as their various guest hosts, the atmosphere the show creates is a friendly one where even if you mess up you can still win so long as you messed up slightly less than everyone else.

I am a terrible baker so this show really resonates with me. I also love things that are so bad they're good, and that's exactly what a lot of the baking attempts by the contestants are. I'm fairly sure I couldn't do a better job, so credit to them all for having a go.

I love the host. She's warm, loud and joyful. She'll laugh at disaster cakes without being cruel. She seems like the kind of person I'd want in my life as a friend.

This show is dumb fun, and since I'm writing this during a COVID-imposed lockdown it's just the sweet dessert I need to stay happy and sane.