And I also recently started The Great British Baking Show.
YES! I LOVE this show.
It's my current favorite show I'm bingeing. I will be so sad when I'm caught up with all the episodes.
This show is so much better than the American skill-based competition shows. They believe in the viewers' intelligence and that we are tuning in to see a REAL competition. They believe an honest to goodness competition with genuine people with creative talent wanting to win is enough.
They don't cast contestants or keep them around for created drama like Top Chef, and Project Runway with the twins this season who shouldn't even be on.
The Great British Baking Show, had one contestant who seemed to be really victimy and the kind of person who always has a bunch of trauma dramas for attention.
When one of the dramas involved ruining another contestant's chances, Bam! they got rid of this person.
There are a few ways to watch episodes:
If you don't have Netflix, or even if you do, you may be able to catch the most recent season showing in the U.S. (2016) on your local PBS channel. That's how I started watching it. My local PBS channel has 3 upcoming episodes scheduled.
Yours may re-air the season a few times, especially during their pledge drives. The current 2017 season is airing now in Britain, so we won't get that till next year on PBS over here.
If you have Netflix, they only have 3 seasons out of the total 7 seasons. But, they never mention the winners of the previous seasons, so they are well worth watching even without the seeing the previous seasons.
Dailymotion (a French YouTube-type site) has the 4 earliest seasons under the show's original British name, "The Great British Bake OFF". (Apparently the Pillsbury company owns the trademark to the term "Bake Off," for their annual Pillsbury Bake Off contest, so the show had to change the name here in the states.) The renamed seasons here are not the same season
numbers in the UK. Netflix isn't showing it from the real start. I think our seasons 1-3 are really 4-6 there. Season 7 (UK) is on PBS - it is called Season 4 here. However, be warned: Dailymotion does NOT have the finale episodes for their seasons 1-3.
You have to hunt around on the web for them at some European streaming sites. I think the BBC had DailyMotion remove the finale episodes. YouTube doesn't have ANY episodes here. Or you can Google for the name of the winners.
If (general) you are still on the fence about the show, don't just take my word for it, here are two reviews:
23 Reasons Why "The Great British Bake Off" Is The Best Show On Netflix:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/23-reasons-why-you-should-watch-the-great-british-bake-off
Why 'The Great British Baking Show' is the best thing on Netflix:
http://www.tampabay.com/features/me...ing-show-is-the-best-thing-on-netflix/2326007
If you do decide to watch, you will need a language translator as British English is not the same as American English
especially when it comes to pastries.
The Clueless American's Guide To "The Great British Bake Off" [terminology.]
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/bloody-daft-puds-mate?utm_term=.svmJQymZJ#.wy7E8Rx7E
It took me forever to figure out that what they refer to as "sponge" is just regular cake, like yellow cake - what we have for Birthday cake.
Not the really light, airy angel food cake - which
we call a sponge cake. "Pudding" over there, I had to Google, and I'm still not sure about it. It seems to be anything
savory or sweet, with breading or cake and diced chunks of meat or fruit, baked in a deep ceramic bowl and flipped out of the bowl as a solid.
It's definitely not mousse-like, like our Jello pudding or the Snack Pack puddings we send our kids off to school with. Their "biscuits" are cookies here. Not sure what they call a plain ole buttermilk biscuit.
Did I mention I love this show?
What the heck is even with that show?!? My son highly recommended it so I tried to sit through an episode with him. It was something to do with everyone in society "rating" each other with "likes" on a social media app. It wasn't overtly gory or horrifying but yet so subtly disturbing that I had to make him turn it off. I'm even a little concerned that DS likes it so much. 
