Season 12 – Holiday Baking Championship

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AS Y @CriticalAlice678 Dec 30 I look forward to HBC every season but this year was terrible. Go back to the old format. This season doesn’t embody the holiday spirit. It embodies all the negative aspects of the holiday season. Someone confused "drama" with "pettiness." It was fun how it was. Bring back the dad jokes and the healthy competition, lose the combativeness. See more Ally B @allyKat0513 Dec 23 I normally love watching the HBC every year. I watch every baking championships on FN. But this season was such a disappointment. The "naughty" vs. "nice" theme pitted contestants against each other. Less talented bakers were able to skate by if they were on a winning team, which is unfair to other contestants who had stronger bakes. Additionally, the winner, Charles did not embody the holiday spirit or the attitude of someone who should have won. He frequently tore down other bakers, he carried an arrogant and pompous attitude the entire season, he whined and complained when he didn’t win challenges. I’m surprised the FN would cast someone with this character. Compared to something like The Great British Baking Show, which is SO WHOLESOME and heartfelt, the contestants actually want everyone to do well and succeed, Charles even being selected on this show felt wrong from the beginning. I hope FN can do better next year on selecting contestants and the shows format. See more Susannah R @Sucaro Dec 13 I loved how Holiday Baking Championship put me in such a festive mood. This season is so disappointing. There is no sense of holiday spirit, holiday festivity, nor joy. The kitchen looks dark and depressing and Jesse seems morose instead of playful. Where are the lights and decorations? Why only one bake? The show has become mean spirited and just sad. See more Christopher B Dec 3 AWFUL! We used to love to watch this show every year to put us in the Christmas spirit. But this year it is mean spirited and cruel (especially episode 4), which is really bizarre since this is the HOLIDAY baking show. We’ve been watching the show since its inception, but sadly, we will no longer be watching this show. Huge disappointment but, unfortunately it is a sign of the times we live in. See more Cory M Dec 3 This season was a massive disappointment. This show has always put me in the holiday spirit, but this year it did the opposite—it felt strangely dark, almost giving off a satanic vibe instead of anything festive. There’s barely any real holiday music in the background for most of the episodes, which kills the atmosphere immediately. Worse, about 75% of the screen time is spent watching contestants sit in a back room instead of actually baking. We barely see techniques, flavors, or anything that made the show enjoyable in the first place. You don’t even get to know the bakers because the new format and producing are genuinely the worst I’ve ever seen. Don’t ruin a good thing. Don’t "fix" what wasn’t broken. Whatever change in production caused this mess needs to be reversed—fast. I can’t recommend this season to anyone. See more Grace B Dec 3 I really dislike this season - the whole naughty vs nice. I don’t watch HBC for drama -mi watch it for the bakers. This season seems mean-spirited and I don’t think I’m going to watch any more episodes. The judges seem more biased than normal and give grace to some people and then tear someone else down when they do the same thing on a different team. Soooooooooo disappointing * the Halloween baking championship was just as bad, maybe even worse. It seems like Food Network has forgotten who actually watches these shows. If I wanted to see this type of meanness and pettiness, I’d tune into one of the Housewives shows See more Read all reviews

Holiday Baking Championship — Season 12

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