A 6-week competition that challenges every aspect of what it means to be a true artist. Each episode measures the talents of bakers Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman in two rounds by use of technique, design skills and taste — a bake-off to test their baking abilities and a cake-off to showcase their creative imaginations and decorating skills.

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This doesn’t change how I feel about him and this show.

There are two kind of competitive shows. The cutthroat Survivor type and the more artistic type where there are usually more people that will helping someone out by loaning materials or labor if they finish early and the other is struggling.

Lets say Buddy is the nicest guy in the world outside of filming a competitive reality show. But in a show his personality type the win at all costs no matter what and if boorish behavior unnerve the competitor so much the better.

The issue with this is that this a two person competition and Duff is definitely not that type. And Duff appears to be suffering in the environment to the point that its horrible to watch and there is no way Buddy is missing that if he is very nice in person. Its not like there is a group competing to ballast it.

So how many off air interactions and competitions does it take before a nice person cuts that shit out before they aren’t nice?

And Buddy’s customer/fan interactions don’t hold a bunch of weight for me because I think that could just be that he likes having fans/fame.

The long and the short of it for me is..

I think Duff is the better television personality.

Buddy has more hustle and is by far more successful in their actual business of bakeries.

I do not doubt that Buddy probably legitimately trounces Duff in taste in every competition. But that is 20% of the score in the first round. There is no way that Buddy tied/beat Duff on stuff like creativity, execution, difficulty, and presentation. with the carnival food He didn’t even try. The taste has to be pulling down or raising other scores. So they should just call it a taste challenge and be done with it.

I actually think that Buddy has an edge in the decorating challenges too. Because with a time limit, big and flashy has a better shot over small and meticulously detailed. I see no reason that Buddy wouldn’t have won for the car in the first episode. I take issue with him storming off to talk to producers mid filming (that is a Real Housewives thing). But its really inconsistent to me that in winning the car challenge, Duff would lose Bollywood. Again they seem to pick and choose what, out of the five elements, actually matters episode to episode.

And that is something both Buddy and Duff are reacting to on the show. I just dislike Buddy’s manner of dealing with it a lot more than Duff’s.