Anyone who has ever played Overcooked or one of its sequels with other humans knows just how tense interactions with the folks you once called ‘friends’ can get. The multiplayer cooking game easily devolves into a mess of shouting, swearing, and severe recriminations. You were supposed to handle the dishes, Kyle! What’s wrong with you?!
Ahem. Given the onscreen chaos, it’s almost surprising that nobody has thought to make a reality TV show of the concept before, but according to Deadline, Netflix and A24 are about to rectify that.
Netflix gets Overcooked
The show based on the game is said to be in the early production stages, so what it’ll look like at the end is anyone’s guess. Names attached to the project are Gemma Langford, Oli De-Vine, and Phil Duncan from Ghost Town Games, Overcooked‘s developer, and A24, of Euphoria fame.
Not much modification is needed to turn the game’s concept into something worth watching. Overcooked involves up to four players attempting to prepare meals for a crowd of hungry patrons while dodging standard kitchen hazards, each other, and the occasional punch thrown from the couch. A reality TV show could reproduce that — perhaps without actual ice or lava (the darkness could stay, we suppose — and it would provide masses of entertainment. For watchers, of course. Participants would probably find themselves hating the people next to them in short order. Just like playing the video game version.
There’s no timeline for the release of the Overcooked reality TV show, with both the company and A24 declining to answer Deadline‘s questions, but it does sound like something the streaming company would back.
