Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Lower East Side
TV Flash files “Lower East Side” as a desk essential hour — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 12, episode 7, aired 2018-11-11, 75 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E07: listed hour 95 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, last listed hour of season 12. It aired 2018-11-11 (75 min). The listed hour before it is “Behind the Scenes” (S12E06). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Lower East Side”. Lower East Side is the last listed hour — curiosity as ethics, loneliness and grace, travel television coming home.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Anthony Bourdain 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, Kembla Pfahler, John Lurie, Clayton Patterson, Hugh Mackie, Joe Coleman, Alex Harsley, Jim Power, and Harley Flanagan, whose collective cultural impact in the 1970's and '80's has sustained through the decades.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Lower East Side sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S12E07 is listed hour 95 of 95 — last listed hour of season 12, season 12 episode 7.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S12E07 air?
Lower East Side aired 2018-11-11 and is listed at 75 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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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