hyped garbage

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Such an enjoyable insight into many cultures and food from countries far and close to home. Very sadly Anthony is no longer with us. But I'm glad I found this gem of a series on Netflix after watching his older one 'No Reservations' and enjoying it

I was surprised to see so many negative reviews some even stating the he is "racist". To each his own I guess... I love Parts Unknown because it goes beyond food, he shows the way the locals live and their daily lives with eating their food. I have found him relatively impartial politically, he lets the people he meets in their respective countries speak for themselves. It seems that anyone having an aversion to CNN and knowing that before they watch automatically has a 1 star rating of him. I had now idea he was before reading the reviews and found that surprising. Much more than a food show, and I think that makes the show overall well rounded and always fascinating.

Believe it or not, there are often much more important things to talk about than dinner in many impoverished and/or war torn foreign nations around the world where this show is shot. Not every television program is going to be a mindless meandering list of topics that only impact American recipe lists and pop culture while ignoring anything important to other people in the world, some shows are actually meant to educate.In a sea of seriously sigh-inducing series which pander only to the lowest common denominator with attention attacking headlines and overblown melodrama, a master chef of all people, has brought a level-headed and insightful peek into the lives of those in the world around us which many professional reporters are too busy worrying about ratings to take on. I, for one of many, unabashedly applaud his integrity. Time and time again it's been proved that it's often the people you'd least expect to know what they're talking about who outshow the most celebrated "news" casters of the click-bait/action news era.Anthony Bourdain, culinary king and hilarious Archer celebrity guest-starring insult smith has now cemented himself among the ranks of legends like Jon Stewart as yet another intelligent human being with basic common sense who can stand with the best of cable's nonsense newsmen and give them a few pointers on proper news presentation. The show is intriguing, informative, entertaining and educational, not simply in terms of international cuisine but conflicts and complex social constructs as well. It's magnificently made in each and every way from shots, to scripts and settings and it deserves every bit of success it receives.

This is basically Bourdain's previous series, No Reservations, on CNN. He goes on familiar places and eat weird food or to weird places and eat weirder food, all the while commenting on politics. Perhaps Parts Unknown is a little more personal and biographical to Bourdain than the previous show. We also get to see and hear more of him about him. That cuts both ways, as he sometimes comes out more of a jerk than a likable cynical. But that's OK. The places he goes don't get the cynical angle they deserve sometimes. Something that's even more pronounced in Parts Unknown than in No Reservations is Bourdain's tendency to ear on the streets, at people's houses or out-of-the-way places. I can tell if that's Bourdain's preference or a production decision. Even in episodes in which he goes to fancy restaurants, such as when he visited Finland, the show prefers the iconoclast, the odd-man-out. It's that anarquist, non conformist, often cynically-bent that makes a great show that is only about food in passing. It's about the peoples of this world.