I have two questions at the very start of this episode. The first is: What exactly does Dessert Week mean? Isn’t everything they make on here, other than bread and a few savory dishes, a dessert? Last week they made cakes ; were those not desserts? Or what about when they made Paris-Brest ? Is that not dessert? I kind of feel like Russell Crowe in Gladiator , and I want to rise up from the dusty floor of the arena and shout to Paul Hollywood wearing a toga that is a little too tight in a sexy way, “Are you not desserted?!” Like, what makes any of these desserts a dessert instead of a pastry or a cake or croquembouche? My second question is: Did Dylan somehow manage to become hotter from last week to this week? Did he get a haircut? Is the notch in his eyebrow freshly shaved? Is he just humbled from his terrible performance last week? I don’t know, but as soon as I saw his Lisa Frank–inspired tie-dye shirt and his hair back with one Superman power curl in the front it was the absolute hottest I had ever seen him. This is before he pulled the Baking Show trifecta — getting a Hollywood handshake, winning the technical, and becoming star baker — in one episode.
According to @GBBOdata , where I get all my GBBO and/or GBBS data, Dylan is only the fifth person in the show’s history to achieve this feat, following Dan (season nine), Peter (season 11), Giuseppe (season 12), and Syabira (season 13). This might be why Illiyin and the rest of the bakers think Dylan is the.
