All You Can Eat
2014 · 13m · USA
Directed by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
Randy Stormberg, the obese host of a public access-style TV show called "All You Can Eat," holds court in a Wilmington, North Carolina hotel room, where his appetite for spectacle mirrors America's own gluttonous entertainment hunger. A character study that metastasizes into something bleaker than its setup promises.
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The scouts
A TV show called 'All You Can Eat' about a man who eats — and it's the sharpest thing in the room. Satire so committed it goes past commentary straight into something ugly and true.
Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik again, embedding a fake Food Network show inside a character study that metastasizes — sharp satirical shorts about gluttonous American entertainment rarely work this well, and Matt Warzel reportedly brilliant.
Burch and Mechanik's earlier feat — a fake Food Network show hosted from a Wilmington hotel room, with Matt Warzel doing the on/off-camera split. Page calls it 'one of the sharpest satirical shorts in awhile' and the setup justifies it.