I miss Anthony Bourdain.

He harboured a lot of unhappiness. Him searching for “genuine” experiences, “real” food, mocking the things that “flyover” folk and fat people liked, was symptomatic of his basic lack of acceptance of himself. It’s the same thing that enabled his drug use.

I am surprised that people were surprised that his life ended the way it did.

It always amazes me when people speak with total confidence about someone they never met, r1. It's fine if you didn't like him but let's tone down the armchair psychiatry bullshit. It's parasocial and weird.

I really liked The Layover, OP. His other stuff, meh.

He was a unique person and was hot before he started getting skeletal. I think he got his heart broken by a romantic partner? Very sad situation.

Out of boredom, I watched one of the episodes (I think from the last season?) and it's on the Croatian coast, which is incredibly beautiful, but at one point, Bourdain is so drunk he literally passes out on the pavement - no small feat from a guy that constantly drinks. In retrospect, it's a wonder he lived as long as he did.

I don't miss him, but his absence & the people who have tried to fill his shoes since his death make you realize that a good travel show is harder than it looks

I didn't like him at first, but I came to love done of his series and even Bourdain. Where first I had seen someone too obsessed his being the bad boy, the contrarían, the hard to please, it was with the series Parts Unknown that I was eon over.

Anything that can be said about him is too easily said, but at times it was fucking lovely ro watch him trek to the far (and not so far) corners and delight in what he found.

One episode that I especially love features Bourdain in Andalucia, guided by him camera man who adopted the place as hone through his wife's family.