Common Sense Media Review
By Marty Brown
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Hipster food tourism show has profanity, sex talk.
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Eater's Guide to the World
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What's the Story?
EATER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD is a food and travel show narrated by Maya Rudolph that attempts to make tourists feel like locals by highlighting the hidden spots and ways people consume food that isn't necessarily in the guide books. The first season sticks mostly within the United States, but also extends to Morocco and Costa Rica for single episodes. Each episode takes place somewhere unique and often features a unique perspective on how to experience the food there. For example, in Los Angeles, people eat on top of their cars; in New York, they eat late at night; in the Pacific Northwest they eat alone. But within those restrictions, Eater's Guide to the World discovers a vast array of different cuisines, cultures, and ways to eat.
Is It Any Good?
Despite the sheer amount of food shows on TV, there are still unique niches to be found. Eater's Guide to the World wants so badly to appeal to, for lack of a better word, hipsters that it can feel a little embarassing at times. Underneath the edgy advertorial artifice, however, is a show that's pretty good at finding corners of food culture that no one else is covering, with an eye toward how people from a wide variety of backgrounds can relate to one another while consuming. The result is a sort of mix between classic food tourism and the sort of roaming, insatiable curiosity of an Anthony Bourdain show.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about food as a social experience. How does your experience of eating change in different contexts? When you're with your friends? Your family? At school or work?
Where do some of the featured episodes take place? What did you know about the city before the show? How does Eater's Guide to the World change your impression that place? Are there spots from the episode you'd like to go to or food you'd like to try?
How do the people in this episode relate to each other? How does food inform that relationship? Have you had similar experiences as anyone on the show? What were they?
TV Details
- Premiere date : November 11, 2020
- Cast : Maya Rudolph
- Network : Hulu
- Genre : Educational
- TV rating :
- Last updated : January 19, 2021
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