'The Great British Baking Show' Collection 9, Episode 5 Recap: German Week

For the first four series of The Great British Baking Show (the U.K. editions, not the American ones, which means we're only talking The Beginnings Season 1 and regular edition GBBO Season 2 here), each Theme Week was a basic bake. Not Just Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and the near-to-the-end Pâtisseries, but your everyday categories: Pastries, Desserts, Traybakes, Pies, Sweet Doughs, etc. But with Season 5 (U.S. Season 1) and then the move to BBC One from BBC Two, the series introduced a new theme style: regional.

Series 5 started simply with "European Cakes." Serines 6 and 7 (Seasons 3 and 4) got more involved with historical themes like Victorian and Tudor. But the show moved to Channel 4, doing a "regional" theme has become nearly a yearly thing: Italian, Danish, and last year's Japanese (which was really Asian Fusion). This year, the show has retreated to the European continent, where the production is more comfortable and brings us German Week. Jürgen, start your engine and your German language lessons! Oh, and everybody else, get ready too.

The good news about doing German Week is that the series has never done this theme before, meaning all three challenges are entirely new to the tent. And even better, they're semi-simple ones because their newness is enough to impress. So let's make like the stars of HBO's newest hit, be impressed Prue can disconnect lighting socco and for some reason that affects the sound design, and join The Great British German Baking Show, which apparently already named Jürgen Star Baker for efficiency's sake, already in progress.

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