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The final full season of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is scheduled to hit Netflix today. Though the series wrapped with a farewell twelfth season this fall, Season 11 was the last complete season Bourdain lived to film. In Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Season 11, the chef, host, and icon visited such far-flung lands as Uruguay, Newfoundland, and Bhutan, but he also made time for the culinary delights of West Virginia and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras.
Anthony Bourdain tragically passed away this summer at the age of 61. The chef, author, and TV personality had been open about his struggles with depression and addiction, but sadly he wound up succumbing to suicide while working in France on a planned episode of Parts Unknown. At the time of Bourdain’s death, only one episode of Parts Unknown Season 12 had been completed. CNN ran the full final season by using footage from four others along with additional interviews. Two episodes looking at Bourdain’s legacy, and the show’s production were also aired. The very last episode focused on Bourdain’s trip back to where his culinary career started: the Lower East Side.
While Season 12 of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown exists in the shadow of its host’s untimely passing, Season 11 is the last season that made it to air exactly as Bourdain intended. Bourdain was famously exacting about the quality of the series and constantly pushed his team to challenge themselves in terms of production and storytelling. The excellence of the show is just one of Bourdain’s many important cultural legacies.
