Cooking with Bill

We've all seen those absurd "cooking show" infomercials, complete with annoying host and his robotic, amazed-on-cue sidekick. Well, Neill Blomkamp feels our pain, offering his idea of what should really take place on these shows (if there truly is a god!).

COOKING WITH BILL makes -sometimes, very bloody- mincemeat out of Bill and the perfectly empty-headed Karen, hearkening back to that old SNL skit about Julia Child with Dan Aykroyd! Great stuff for lovers of a darker sort of parody...

How did this ever get made? Not funny, been done a million times, meaningless, obviously a rich kid getting an unjustified break. Awful. How could anyone think that was funny, original or visionary?

Cooking with Bill is a series of shorts about the titular fictional 80s cooking show. The "joke" of every episode is that Bill uses some kind of cooking device which ends up producing a gross and gory mess. That's pretty much all there is to these shorts.

Personally I did not find this series of shorts funny or even entertaining at all, in fact watching them made me feel very uncomfortable and perhaps not in the way that was intended. The shock at the end of each episode is completely predictable and there's no continuity between the episodes at all. When I first started watching them I assumed they were going to progressively get worse as they went on but instead they just reset at the start of each new episode, Bill cuts his hand open in the first one and then he's completely fine in the next.

Even the worst of Blomkamp's work is usually passable at best but this was just terrible, I'm not sure what he was thinking with this and with his name behind it I expected more.

This short serves to make you feel sick and nothing more, apparently that's worth including it in an anthology on Netflix. Do yourself a favour and just skip this one like it's not even there- it really shouldn't be. Meanwhile, there are actually films and shorts out there worth your time and made by people who actually give a cr*p about the film industry and bringing creativity to the screen. This is pointless garbage.

Skip this. Not even sure why it's in appocalyptic series.

It will only make you vomit. Stupid and pointless. Avoid completely. Bizzare, boring and pointless.