Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Far West Texas
TV Flash files “Far West Texas” as hour 93 of 95 in the TV Flash guide — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 12, episode 5, aired 2018-10-21, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E05: listed hour 93 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, hour 5 of 7 in season 12. It aired 2018-10-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bourdain's Impact” (S12E04). Next is “Behind the Scenes” (S12E06).
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Anthony Bourdain 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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Far West Texas sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S12E05 is listed hour 93 of 95 — hour 5 of 7 in season 12, season 12 episode 5.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S12E05 air?
Far West Texas aired 2018-10-21 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need to watch in order?
Each episode is a place. Jump by curiosity — Iran, Libya, Congo, or a city you think you already know. The ethic is consistent; the map is not a serial plot.
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Anthony Bourdain sits at tables through conflict and history, eating without tourist gloss. CNN as unlikely prestige: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Travel television with literary soul — curiosity as ethics — and a body of work that rewatches now as both journalism and a decade's memorial.
The first look is a table without tourist gloss. Anthony Bourdain sits with people around the world, eating through history and conflict — CNN series premiered **2013**, an unlikely network turned prestige destination: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Multiple Emmys. Episodes in Iran, Libya, Congo and more became teaching texts. Curiosity as ethics. Travel television with literary soul — the table as journalism, the plate as pretext for who gets to be seen. Tessa's tags will rank a "best bite." Let them.…
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Anthony Bourdain sat at tables through conflict and history on Parts Unknown — CNN as unlikely prestige, food as politics, loneliness, and grace, travel television with literary soul. Curiosity as ethics. TV Flash files him as the 2010s…