No./8 Serving up a second course of Boiling Point
Inside the serialised sequel to the Stephen Graham-fronted restaurant stress-fest
SPARE A THOUGHT for any diners at London’s Jones & Sons restaurant who haven’t seen Boiling Point. “People keep going in and taking pictures of themselves lying in the spot where [Andy, played by Stephen Graham] collapses at the end,” says Philip Barantini, director of the tense one-take kitchen drama, which was shot in the restaurant in March 2020. The filmmaker concedes that that must be a pretty perplexing sight for anyone not acquainted with the film. Then again, there’s much that’s perplexing right now regarding Boiling Point — not least the news that it’s been commissioned as a TV series, featuring the character many presumed died at the film’s end.