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Skriven 2015-05-23 02:13:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Parts Unknown 701
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So I have never watched Parts Unknown (about 5 years
old now), and coincidentally have access to a TV this
weekend, when CNN is doing a Bourdain marathon. Yesterday,
Travel and Cooking were having No Reservations and Cook's
Tour on simultaneously, and I was wondering if the guy had
died or something. Checked the Wikipedia, and apparently
he hasn't.


This session -

Madagascar
Miami
Scotland
Myanmar
Chiang Mai

The days to come -

Andalucia
Peru
Bahia Brazil
Provincetown
New Mexico
Vegas
Mississippi
Bronx
Detroit

The shows follow the usual trajectory - starting with
(feigned) ignorance of an area, going through a range
of interesting stuff that normal people would eat or
do, then interesting stuff that most people would not
eat or do, crisis of some potentially dangerous sort,
redemption, ending with a paean of undying love for
the area and its food and its people. Pretty unvaried
through all the guy's series for the last 15 years or so.

Interesting thing I've figured out about the subtitling -
its appearance is kind of spotty; when the producers
don't want you to know what somebody is saying, it goes
off sometimes unexpectedly. This is kind of fun.

Anyway, I'm in the midst of the first marathon (5 shows)
and discern few if any differences between this series
and the previous ones. A little mellower shade of dark,
perhaps. I'm enjoying enough to plan to watch as many
of the next batch as I can squeeze into my busy schedule.


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