Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Season 12

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The final episodes premiered Sunday, September 23 with a trip to Kenya Featuring W. Kamau Bell. The seven-episode season also includes trips to Indonesia, Texas, Spain, and New York City’s Lower East Side, plus two specials.

Where to Watch Season 12

7 Episodes

Kenya
E1
KenyaBourdain takes his CNN colleague, comedian W. Kamau Bell, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, a place Bell always wanted to visit. They learn about its secondhand clothing industry, struggling poor, colorful minibus culture, and nature reserves.
Asturias, Spain
E2
Asturias, SpainAnthony's larger than life friend, chef Jose Andres, enthusiastically shows him the natural and culinary wonders of his rustic homeland of Asturias, Spain. They also recreate a scene from Apocalypse Now (1979) as a cartoon starring themselves.
Indonesia
E3
IndonesiaBourdain explores Indonesia's tradition of shadow puppetry, views on spirituality, death and afterlife, the taboo subject of state-sponsored mass killings of leftists in 1965, funeral celebrations, and Bali's problem with "overtourism."
Bourdain’s Impact
E4
Bourdain’s ImpactThis episode explores how Anthony Bourdain’s unique perspective and voice altered the world of food, travel and culture and in the process reinvented how audiences watched television and engaged intimately and actively with the world around them.
Far West Texas
E5
Far West TexasBourdain travels to the untamed land of Big Bend, Texas near the Mexican border; an area that pits man against nature and in which the land usually wins. Bourdain shares meals with working cowboys who have made peace with the rough terrain, and meets with an anthropologist who decoded prehistoric landmark, the White Shaman wall painting.
Behind the Scenes
E6
Behind the ScenesBourdain’s relationship with his crew, the team that traveled with him and slogged through the trenches, was like no other in his life. In this episode the people who made Parts Unknown select moments from their episodes and pull back the curtain, to talk about collaboration, creative freedom, moments when Bourdain had their back or called them out, the times when he was caught off guard or forgot the cameras were even there.
Lower East Side
E7
Lower East SideBourdain takes a personal journey through this formerly bohemian New York City neighborhood, as he meets, shares meals and reflects with music, film and art trailblazers including Richard Hell, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, Fab 5 Freddy, Danny Fields, Amos Poe, Jim Jarmusch, Kembra Pfahler, John Lurie, Clayton Patterson and Harley Flanagan, whose collective cultural impact in the 1970’s and ’80’s has sustained through the decades.