Is It Cake? is "a challenging idea to transform into a reality show — there’s not a lot of there there, except to the extent that what’s there always ends up being cake," says Kathryn VanArendonk of the Mikey Day-hosted Netflix reality show. She adds: "In all fairness, some of the choices for how to turn this meme into a show were pretty decent. Still, it’s hard not to watch and think, I do not care about any of this. I came for one thing and one thing only: to watch people cut into something that doesn’t look like cake and reveal its inner secrets. So much of Is It Cake? is spent on something other than cutting up stuff! It didn’t have to be this way, and although this show already exists and no one will ever take this advice, I’d still like to offer up a suggestion for what Is It Cake? could’ve been. The first step is getting a set, a group of regular people, a blindfold, and a knife."
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TOPICS: Is It Cake?, Netflix, Mikey Day, Reality TV