"This really is one of the most creative shows I've seen in quite a while; not in the construction of the programme itself (which takes the familiar "mission" format to provide a fairly spurious narrative), but in Blumenthal's inventive craziness. It's basically a bloke deliberately dicking around to extreme effect for an hour, dabbling in a weird form of art, seeing how far he can go. Halfway through, I realised why this was so refreshing: you very rarely see such genuinely ingenious and imaginative processes being followed this clearly on TV. Each course Blumenthal serves is like an edible Python sketch: meticulously constructed and very, very silly."
The full article from The Guardian can be found here.
Brooker's great - always funny, frequently (and deservedly) scathing, and absolutely one hundred percent on the money most of the time. For all the apparent grumpiness he seems like One Of The Good Guys.
I watched the programme last night and I have to say I agree. It was good fun. I'm looking forward to the next installment which I fervently hope is called 'Heston's Jurassic Feast' and in which he clones a velociraptor and uses it to make a very fine consomme.
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