Lizard Clit

This show is just unbelievable. It feels like it was made with a $1000 budget, and something about the tackiness of it all is both vaguely sinister and profoundly strange. The cast is solid and good at what they do, but that’s not what makes this a five-star show. It’s the atmosphere. I felt like I was watching something produced in an alternate dimension that was meant to be aired in the middle of the night on Adult Swim. I can’t explain it, but this show is just a bit of scripting away from being an arthouse surrealist horror pic; I was waiting to see Tim Heidecker’s name in the credits for a clue that the show was made as a joke and was going to turn out to be a bad bedtime story. But no: “Is It Cake?” is sincere and all too real. There’s nothing beneath the surface, it really is just a show about weirdly random people baking weirdly lifelike cakes. Watch and you’ll understand. Yes, the entire show takes place in one room. Yes, the cast is awkward. Yes, Mikey Day is absolutely 100% the least charismatic person in the history of the world. But it all works somehow. Everything about the show works only because the pieces come together so perfectly. My advice: get a little intoxicated, watch the whole thing in one sitting. It’ll be like a fever dream that’ll have you questioning if everything in your life is actually made of cake. “Is It Cake?” is an existential experience like no other.