There is a gruesome scene in Mark Mylod’s famous film The Menu (2022) which takes place in a fine-dining restaurant with few tables and only twelve guests on an obscure and secluded island. At one point, Julian Slowik, the restaurant’s celebrated chef, who prepares a new special menu for his diners each time, full of all sorts of surprises (and not only gastronomic ones), introduces his guests to Jeremy, ‘the good but not great’ sous chef who, after the chef-genius’s spiel concludes, sticks a gun in his mouth and commits suicide.