Sugar Rush Christmas Season 2 Review

December 27, 2020 at 5:41pm
By Jason Stettner

Sugar Rush Christmas Season 2 is the latest part of Netflix's sweets based competition that follows a group of specific bakers battling it out for a cash prize. This is presented over six episodes of about one hour in length. This is on par with what they did for the other seasons of the series, as it truly has become quite set in design for how they pump them out.

It definitely seems like this is now an official side series to the overall theme of the Sugar Rush competitions. I also find that the series is getting more streamlined, and the hosts are more comfortable with what they’re doing. It’s a more calmed competition as the guests battle it out creating Christmas themed goodies. Each episode had a sort of festive theme going on, and at times some extra little add-ins for a surprise. This once again included some musical portions and a fun tie in with Charlie Brown inspirations for challenges.

It’s generally the same as usual, the contestants battle it out over rounds creating sugar filled creations. Things end with a cake, and they had fun with the themes this year hitting the key elements of Christmas, or at least I felt so. Keep in mind there’s a pressure of time here, and that’s always neat to see how it affects things, and it got close to the buzzer at times this season.

Visually this feels right on brand with what we’ve seen thus far. There seems to be a good balance of using the main judges, and the guest judges that are presented. I found the guests to generally be fairly forgettable quite honestly, but overall this was streamlined and easy to take in so I suppose the former doesn’t matter too much.

The pacing feels good, presenting just enough of the contestants to get context into what they’re making. I would like a deeper focus on what they’re specifically making, as opposed to the motivation. I noticed some elements of their motivation were being repeated multiple times throughout an episode. It seems like overall everyone had some fun with this season, across the board. The main host is also now rather enjoyable having found a good flow in comparison to earlier seasons.

The Conclusion

Sugar Rush Christmas Season 2 is a solid spin-off for this cooking competition that was enjoyable yet at the same time forgettable in that it was so streamlined. I liked the extra elements that they mixed in when it came to challenges, and they really hit the far corners of the holiday season with this one. Just some minor things to get this more streamlined and some additional episodes would be tops.

At the same time, the layout does feel easy to go through with the number of episodes that are present. It’s easy to consume binge wise, nothing too wild yet nice to have on for something to watch during the holidays. It fits into the season well and the creations were really cool as per usual.

The competitive elements felt fiercer this time as the time really got cut down and you could tell some were struggling to get everything to work in those last moments which was great. Hopefully this triggers additional themed events for the series, could do multiple holidays for some unique creations throughout the year. I would still like to see that sort of thing be present, like a Halloween series for example would be cool.

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Rating Overall: 7.0