A glassblower, that's fine… Three glassblowers, hello damage!

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  • At the end of January, Netflix launched the second season of the show 

    En Verre et contre tous

    , in which ten glassblowers compete

    against each

    other.

  • With its colorful cast, dizzying challenges and constant tension, the competition ticks all the boxes of the program to be bingewatched in one weekend.

We know the cooking competitions on TV.

The musical telecrochets, we did the tour.

And while M6 launched a Lego contest at the end of last year, we thought we wouldn't be more original.

It was without counting on the boundless imagination of producers from across the Atlantic.

On January 22, Netflix put online the second season of

Glass and Against All

, a show in which… Ten glassblowers compete

against each

other.

Beyond the incredible play on words of the title found by the French translators, the program has something to arouse the curiosity of any Internet user in search of thrills.

Forget the tension of

Lady's Game

, the twists and turns of

La Casa de Papel

and the magic of

Stranger Things

, all of these ingredients come together in one show.

In the end, a nice check for 60,000 dollars addressed to the one who will amaze the jury over the tests.

The hot shop opens January 22nd for Season 2 of Blown Away!

Ten exceptional glassblowers from around the globe battle the heat, the clock, and each other to be named best in glass 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ubbUFjE6ix

- Blown Away (@BlownAwaySeries) December 28, 2020

A fiery competition

Flames, fire, ovens at 1000 ° C and therefore sweat, this is roughly what you should expect when you launch the first episode of this series.

In the words of one of the participants, “glassmakers stink all the time.

We are called the truckers of the arts world.

We are surely more disgusting than average.

»An observation which, at first glance, does not sell dreams but which contrasts with the pop colors and the bucolic poetry of the

Meilleur Pâtissier

.

Why take a passion for blowers and glassblowers?

First of all because they have this mysterious side and have an almost mystical relationship with the molten dough.

Apart from a vague report in 2017 in the 13 Hours of TF1 newscast, it is a practice and a profession that we are not used to seeing highlighted on our screens.

So when an entire competition is devoted to them, the gesture must be emphasized.

In glass and against all

is above

all

the opportunity to see breathtaking works, created in just two or four hours depending on the themes of each challenge.

If, for example, you were asked to make your self-portrait with glass, would you have thought of constructing a sphere and a spiral that illustrate your endless quest for maturity?

That’s what we were saying to each other.

And if going to bed a little less stupid each night is your deepest desire, you will be delighted to learn the meanings of the terms "soffietta", "fritte" and "battuto".

A whole world is open to you.

A glassblower, that's fine… Three glassblowers, hello damage!

Let's not forget that the show is above all a competition.

Just like the concept, the casting is therefore of capital importance.

In the second season, you will probably love to hate Chris, presented as the ultra-experienced candidate thanks to his thirty years of work, who has a little trouble following instructions and who tells it to himself a lot.

Faced with him, his rivals are just as formidable and do not hesitate to touch the sensitive chord, that of the usual music of American good feelings.

The last ingredient that makes all the salt of the program: breakage.

Yes, when you handle glass, accidents happen quickly.

Just as you hold your breath when a

Best Pastry

nominee

misses their icing, stress is just as intense when a structure shatters into a thousand pieces.

Unfortunately, we still see a problem with

Glass and against all

.

Unlike Mercotte's strawberry charlotte, it's hard to try this new hobby on a Sunday afternoon.

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