‘Chef’ Has Mysteriously Disappeared From Netflix Australia & I Am Up All Night Sookin’

In what’s probably the worst possible news for any of you who, like me, are ardent fans of Jon Favreau tossing up between Sofia Vergara and Scarlett Johansson or story arcs that begin with middle-aged men being murderously angry online before pivoting wildly to revelatory road movies at the onset of the third act, it would appear that Chef (2014) – aka the chief reason why 85% of white men aged 28 to 35 know what a cubano is – has been removed from the Netflix Australia library.

As horrible a prospect as that may be, sadly it’s true.

I stumbled upon the disappearance of Chef (2014) last night; what should otherwise have been the perfect long weekend couch session in isolation was tossed into the throes of chaos as Netflix returned a nil search result. Where once stood the mighty Chef (2014) now sits a perilous void, with nary a beignet nor a heartwarming father-son moment atop a food truck in Austin Texas to be seen.

Instead, Netflix asked if I wanted to be “reminded” of when it comes back, without so much as giving me a hint of when the fresh hell that might even be.

I can still watch the Netflix-produced companion series The Chef Show no dramas at all. But can I get stuck into a full dinner service shift of Chef (2014)? You bet your ass not.

Worse still, there appears to have been little-to-no warning of Chef (2014)’s imminent departure. Netflix Australia has a known habit of quietly deleting titles, even those that weren’t previously announced as being on streaming death row. For all I know it could have vanished from the library months ago. I could have been wandering the earth with no immediate access to Chef (2014) for weeks on end now.

In this cursed isolated world we’re all enduring, there is no finer 90 minute ride than Chef (2014). It encompasses all aspects of iso life, from bursting capillaries over a social media post, to getting soul-consumingly absorbed in the cooking of a toasted cheese sandwich.

Yet it’s also so much more than just that. Chef (2014) is a road movie, a tourism postcard, a critique on the ego-drive restaurant culture, a love letter to food, a family drama, an unashamed celebration of Latinx culture that still has a white man as its nucleus for some reason, a movie that Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr are both in. It is seventeen different movies all at once. And I cannot watch it on Netflix anymore. No longer can the red ribbon streaming behemoth transport me to a place where Chef Big Dog is, undeniably, up all night cookin’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEuMH10Kol8

I mean, I’ll probably just torrent it someshit. Whatever, it’s fine.

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