Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown is a massive failure. I watched last week’s Tokyo/ No insight into culinary Tokyo. No, it was about sex, pornography, bondage, sexual deviancy.
I turned it off forever.
I used to like Bourdain for his irreverence … but he is just a jerk. Predictably, I don’t like his politics but he’s a not very nice man.
Look at the way he gloated at Paula Deen’s [I don’t like her either] diabetes. He went on and on about how she deserved it, and had it coming.
Yet, if Bourdain had gotten cirrhosis because of his incessant drinking or emphysema from non-stop smoking, I wonder if she would gloat. I think not.
Well, that was short lived. I gave Bourdain another chance tonight.
It was not free on YouTube so I popped to buy Sunday’s episode: Detroit. Because I am supremely interested in the city … although I have never been there. Blessedly the program was relatively low on Bourdain politics … he likens the city to Chernobyl melting back into it’s natural habitat.
I’m halfway through it … back to the film ...