Date announced: Tuesday September 4 in the UK, so presumably Friday, September 5 on Netflix in the US.
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Netflix now has it on their site as coming September 5.
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Anyone else watching yet? Watching the cakes episode. Anyone understand the “inlay” bit?
I’m also wondering about how this competition might weed out some folks without the time, resources and places to practice.
Impressive to see the lady with Tourettes managing it.
Is the extra, unneeded ingredients in the technical new? I don’t recall them discussing that before. Did anyone avoid the trick?
I’m also noticing impressions of height from where the work surface aligns with body parts. One guy at the waist, one at the thigh! It must be difficult to have to bend all day.
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We started watching it last night. These bakers seem to be actual amateurs as opposed to the increasingly skilled groups of the past few seasons. As an extremely unskilled baker, I actually enjoy these people more and can relate to them!
Which woman has Tourettes? I must have missed something.
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That’s what’s so impressive! I have seen and studied a lot of it in my career, and may not have picked it up otherwise. I almost didn’t mention it. I’m going to see if it’s mentioned online before I “out” anyone.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” (marginally acceptable Seinfeld reference).
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I found it online, but my lips are sealed. 
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I thought maybe they just had a stutter.
But I didn’t like the addition of the “misleading” ingredients in the technical. A horrible decision on the producers part IMHO. It goes against everything I so thoroughly enjoy about the show. It’s a cheap gimmick where it isn’t needed.
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Totally agree!
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I forgot this bit 
I’ll be saying “bit” a lot!
Pru was awesome but we thought it went on a bit long.
About the technical
"I understand that the technical challenge is designed to test the technical proficiency of the bakers, and trying to figure out a recipe is part of that. But on the first day? When no one has been in the tent before? This is setting them up to fail. We don’t mind if there is a mess or two (that’s usually pretty exciting), but when all 12 bakers serve up hot-pink diarrhea on a gingham table, then there is something wrong with the challenge, not with the bakers."
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My wife is the baker of the couple. She’d never heard on the inlay thing before. Clever stuff though.
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Or not!
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I’d always understood that success was based on the contestant’s performance on the day. And I just don’t think the winner (no spoilers) was actually best on the day’s challenges.
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I think they’ve pretty much done away with that for the overall title, unless someone just tanks the finale bakes. Even if they haven’t, the person who didn’t win this year biffed the first challenge, and they didn’t have any significant criticisms of the winner in either the signature or showstopper (that person had the least criticism of the three in the signature(). They’ve completely dismissed the technical before when they preferred someone’s showstopper, so it didn’t seem out of character for the judges.
Ah, that would explain it.
I wasn’t surprised by the winner, but I just watch the show for the vibe. My baking skills are very limited!
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I agree. The contestants constantly mention the heat in the tent, which seems like a built in handicap.
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Agree with what everyone has posted. Seemed like a surprise given the day’s performance but not the season.
I wonder how this plays out in the UK. In the US, I feel a little bad for the winner (not because they don’t deserve it). The editors/producers decide what we see, what judges comments we hear, etc - and I feel like they set this up as “haha you thought it would be someone else” - which is very much a US reality show move. But it can create a hard road for the winner after the show if they choose to do press/cash in on their 15 minutes etc. So I hope that isn’t the case.
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Probably the same as anywhere else. I don’t really follow TV forums but a quick glance will tell you that, every week, there’ll be a discussion that X shouldnt have been dropped because they were better than Y.
Taking the point upthread that it’s no longer a matter of performance on the day, then I think the winner was obviously the best throughout the series.
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