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Have you ever said that something looks good enough to eat and wanted to take a bite of it. Well, on Eye Candy, a Roku Original that is streaming now, you can do just that.
Josh Groban hosts the Japanese import, where a cake is made to look like ordinary household items. The contestants have to guess if something is the real thing or an edible copy.
Each episode has two teams go up against each other. Both teams consist of an average person and a celebrity like Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg, Rachel Dratch, Nina Agdal, Michael Ian Black, Aparna Nancheria, Ana Gasteyer, Tiki Barber, Bridget Everett, Caroline Manzo, Melissa Gorga, Michelle Buteau, Jeremy Jordan, and Nico Tortorella.
The game show only has two rounds. The first one is the Conveyer Belt Challenge. That is when an item goes down the conveyer belt, and the contestants have to guess if they are going to take a bite of something sweet or something hard. It sounds easy, but the delectable carbon copies are so well done, it is hard to tell. And the only way to tell is to take a huge bite. The first team to get two right moves on to the next round.
For the second and last round called Sweet Suite, they go into a room like a ’90s bedroom, a casino, or a hardware store and have to guess which three items are not what they appear to be. For each item they guessed correctly, they get a cash prize. The first one gets them $1,000, the second gets them up to $2,500 and if they get a third, then they go home with $5,000 and a cavity.
Season one consists of ten 9-minute episodes. After binging the program, I think all game shows should be this long. That means they are a third the length of your average game show, so you never get bored. That is why you can burn through them in the time it takes to watch an awful movie.
Now, let’s talk about the gameplay. It sounds easy, but even I couldn’t tell what was fake. That is what makes it so much fun. You get to cringe with them as they find out if they are about to sink their teeth into a jockstrap, a cigar, a jukebox, a cactus, or a cake. Their faces say it all when they find out the object’s fate.
After we find out if the item is scrumptious, then we get to see a video of how they made the yummy imitation. It is really neat to see it take life before it meets its death.
Something I hope this show doesn’t meet because 10 episodes are not enough sweetness. Especially since Groban is hosting, he was born to do this job with his quick wit and warm personality.
While four out of five dentists will hate this show, four out of five patients will love it.
