TV-PGSeason 1
Get hungry, get curious, get lost.
Synopsis
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM. Eight episodes that launched Bourdain's CNN series and established its template in one go: go somewhere television travel shows ignored.
The season delivered eight destinations without a safe pick among them. Myanmar had barely cracked open to outsiders. The Los Angeles episode skipped Hollywood entirely and spent its hour in a three-square-mile stretch of Koreatown still carrying the weight of the 1992 riots. Quebec got ice fishing and beaver hunting and two of the funniest chef-restaurateurs in Canada. Tangier was the Beat generation's "Interzone," still visible if you know where to look. Libya was filmed in the immediate aftermath of Gaddafi's fall, hip-hop soundtrack included. Peru took Bourdain and Eric Ripert deep into the Andes for rare wild cocoa. The season closed in the Congo — Conrad's territory, and Bourdain knew it.
The first season remains the clearest statement of what the show was arguing: food is the door, not the point. Stream Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1Myanmar
With the slight relaxation of control by the government of Myanmar, Tony is finally able to explore one of the most fabled and beautiful areas of Asia.
S1·E2Los Angeles
Tony takes Los Angeles--but with a twist. No Hollywood sign, no Beverly Hills. Instead, he zeroes in on a three square-mile area of the city known as Koreatown, where he finds a tight-knit community still marked by the 1992 Rodney King riots.
S1·E3Colombia
The public face of Colombia has changed immensely over the past ten years and is still changing for the better. Tony will explore several regions of the country from the mountains down to the Caribbean coast to the coca leaf growing inlands formerly controlled by drug cartels.
S1·E4Quebec
Bourdain travels to remote areas within the province of Quebec where he samples local delicacies, explores ice fishing and beaver hunting and spends time with two of funniest and most brilliant chef/restauranteurs in Canada, Joe Beef's Dave McMillan and Fred Morin.
S1·E5Morocco (Tangier)
Tony explores the "Interzone", where artists like Burroughs, Bowles, and the Rolling Stones sought escape from Western moral prohibitions and the possibilities of great empty spaces.
S1·E6Libya
Libyan hip-hop, Italian restaurants, tribal allegiances and post-war uncertainty in Libya. Bourdain looks at the country through personal stories, food--and the music of anti-Qaddafi rapper expats who returned to fight.
S1·E7Peru
Tony and his friend, world-renowned chef Eric Ripert, explore the far reaches of indigenous Andes in search of a rare variety of wild cocoa that is said to be the "best" in the world. They move from hip, modern Lima back in time into pre-Colombian Peru.
S1·E8Congo
Tony visits Congo, the setting of one of his favorite books, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and the basis for one of his favorite movies, the classic Apocalypse Now.
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