Last night I had the pleasure of watching two of my favorite things, kitchen mishaps and Tab Geralt, collide. This unlikely combination is thanks to Netflix's best candy-making show, Nailed It. For Halloween, the show challenged contestants to make candy inspired by other Netflix shows, including "The Witcher," and the inept contestants were challenged to make a Geralt cake.

What they actually made was a series of nightmares that haunted me forever.

For those who don't know, the hook of Nailed It is that it doesn't involve talented bakers. I was hooked on this pandemic in part because of the host, Nicole Byer. The whole thing is fun.

As usual, the contestants overbaked or underbaked their cakes. For example, they didn't bother trimming the wire used to make Geralt's skeleton, resulting in unnatural, gussied-up limbs. They look like the monsters he usually defeats. There were also some creative and interesting choices, such as putting a giant rat in the bathtub.

There are many moments of playful mockery of these awful bakers, but the lovely part of the show is that the buyers, along with judge and chocolatier Jacques Torres, are always trying to find something good about the cakes, even while choking on the gritty, soggy sponges The place. As she puts it, when confronted with Cronenberg's Geralt, "I'm like, 'I've never seen anything like this before.'

Since it takes less than an hour to make a very elaborate cake, I'm sure many talented amateur bakers would struggle to make a cake that looks as good. It's pretty stressful! So naturally, when the buyer asked one of the contestants if he enjoyed making them, he replied with a blank stare, "No, it wasn't fun." Lucky for him, the judges actually had nice things to say about the taste, if not the appearance.

It's a great episode and you should watch it. In fact, I hope you watch all the episodes and enjoy Schadenfreude.

In other Witcher news, a new Witcher trilogy is in the works (open in new tab), a spin-off (open in new tab) with both a multiplayer and single player campaign is in the works, and Dandelion is the next Everyone agrees that The Witcher should be the protagonist (opens in new tab).