‘Cooking With Julie’ Is The Latest Deeply Dysfunctional Cooking Show You’ll Identify With Too Much

For most people, cooking is less an idyllic way to express one’s creativity and prowess through a life-giving medium, and more that boring but necessary thing you have to do at the end of the day because you’re tired and you’ve blown your paycheck on five nights of delivery Thai food.

So it makes a weird kind of sense that, of all the genres to take off this year, cooking comedy webseries with a strong undercurrent of misanthropic chaos have found a willing audience. Melbourne comedians Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney amply demonstrated with The Katering Show that watching cooking show hosts channel their simmering, unresolved resentments and insecurities into a homemade lasagne makes for pretty good watching.

Now comes the six-episode Cooking with Julie, the creation of fellow Melbourne comic Hannah Bath, about a cooking show host who’s even less able to keep her shit together on camera than the two Kates.

Highlights include a soufflé with unresolved parental issues, the show’s untimely axing being averted at knifepoint, and a special guest appearance from Masterchef winner Andy Allen, who is seemingly unaware of how much danger he’s in.

Watch the full series below, and follow the show on Facebook here.

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