'Great British Baking Show' is the COVID-free TV comfort food we need right now

The West Coast is on fire. A reality-star president is nudging the country closer to a constitutional crisis on a near-daily basis. Schools are closed and millions remain out of work thanks to an unchecked pandemic. We've lost real-life heroes who fought for change in Hollywood and Washington. And the things we normally do to escape - movies, concerts, long dinners with friends in establishments with four walls and a roof - are unavailable to us.

But, hey, at least we have "The Great British Bake-Off" - or, as I am legally required to call it while writing on American soil, "The Great British Baking Show."

Landing like a teeny, tiny cherry atop the giant crap sundae of 2020,