I haven't said much about this new season of TV. That's because basically, it sucks. There's
Samantha Who?,
Gossip Girl and
Journeyman, which after three hours and 40 minutes, wound up getting past the conceit of its premise to actually tell a story.
So I'm going to talk about a show you may have never heard of. It's called
Ace of Cakes and airs late nights on the Food Network. The show is like The Office, only it's about Charm City Cakes, a Baltimore, MD based cake company owned by Duff Goldman, a goateed, baseball cap wearing dude who you wish was your boss. Each episode is pretty basic: they get cake orders, usually consisting of a mix of outrageous (an armadillo dressed as an EMT) and the classic (wedding cakes). Goldman's hired his friends to run the cake shop and the show is a mixture of cake-making and goofing off. You don't learn a thing about making cakes and while a lot of the staff is ornery, there's never a fight.
Instead the show is an intimate portrait of a local neighborhood. You meet the oddballs that inspired John Waters. You get a real sense that the folks who run Charm City Cakes were the weirdos in high school, but they stuck around because, hell, Baltimore is their home. They may have wanted to be "serious artists" at one point, but instead they make people in their community happy. It's sort of basic, but every time it airs, I'm hooked.
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I haven't said much about this new season of TV. That's because basically, it sucks. There's Samantha Who?, Gossip Girl and Journeyman, which after three hours and 40 minutes, wound up getting past the conceit of its premise to actually tell a story.