Watch Netflix’s The Big Flower Fight for its Grand-Gorgeous Flower Sculptures

Remember how the Angry Birds movie is essentially a motion picture tribute to a gaming app? Well, the latest competition show on Netflix, The Big Flower Fight, is a similar tribute to Pinterest and Instagram’s niche floral artists.

Ten pairs of contestants are put together each week on a countryside farm in Kent, England, to come up with wackiest ways to arrange flowers in the biggest and boldest garden sculptures.

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Crazy, right? Well, it took me a while to wrap my head around the concept too. For a minute I caught myself thinking maybe Netflix was trying too hard!

But then I saw the show’s contestants creating huge sculptures made out of flowers, grass, herbs and even coconut husk -– moulded into eight-foot insects and even couture gowns! Add to it the nuanced observations by the show’s judge Kristen Griffith-Vanderyacht on different flowers and their uses, and you have a live-action adaptation of a floristry Pinterest page for you!

Who are the creators?

The contestants come from various backgrounds — some are florists or landscape gardeners, but some hairdressers and carpenters are armed with nothing but a keen aesthetic sense. Each pair also has another layer of dynamics. Some are friends or family, while others are partners and even business associates.

The show is hosted by the comedians Natasia Demetriou and Vic Reeves who walk us through 10 weeks of a friendly floral fight for the grand prize of creating a garden sculpture for London’s Royal Botanic Garden.

Criticism, here be you!

Well, the show may be an original idea in many ways, but it does feel like a flowery rip-off of the Great British Bake Off. Many can find the general attitude of the hosts lacking in enthusiasm, which I agree with. But then judge Kristen more than makes up for it.

Then there is the question of nearly 9-hour long commitment for a quintessential flower show, with a touch of grand sculpting, of course. What the creators could have done, in addition to the backstories of their participants, was to take a closer look at their ongoing interpersonal drama during the length of the show.

There was some good potential wasted like the adorable father-son duo who received two minutes of the director’s attention. Or the couple who had nothing to do with gardening in any way or form but managed to create wonderful works of art, their creative processes were limited to a single wacky idea in each episode.

Considering flower-manship isn’t as common a talent as baking, we could do with some more drama to keep us engaged in the making of these wonderful end-products.

Nevertheless, the show is a step in the right direction with a niche talent at its centre. The sculptures that come out of it are directly going to my saved pins and posts as soon as I can lay my hands on them. After all, who doesn’t love some flower power now and then! The Big Flower Fight is streaming on Netflix now.