Because this year's Bake Off was filmed over a compressed time frame, with bakers and crew living together the whole time at the height of the pandemic's first wave, what we're seeing here as the weeks go by is a group of people gradually breaking.

None of them can even make brownies now. By the end there'll just be three people running around the tent with their hair on fire.

This isn't a serious point, btw. It's just that the series so far has quite a chaotic energy.

Noel has quite clearly lost it already, for example.

Remember, these people are living together, so there's definitely a different atmosphere! It's interesting, that's all!

If we spent weeks living with a giant crow, a sentient bottle of too-strong aftershave and the Ur Posh Tory Mum, we'd forget how to bake brownies too.