Episode notes
Tony is a poignant comedic drama set in Provincetown, Rhode Island during the summer of 1975. It stars Dominic Sessa as a 19 year old Anthony Bourdain, Antonio Banderas as Chef and Leo Woodall as Sal, a kitchen co-worker of Tony's who is implied to be the introduction of drugs to Tony's world. It is based on a fictionalized romantic journey that Tony embarks upon, by following a co-Student from Vassar College, for the summer. He gets a job accidentally, in a kitchen, first cleaning dishes and then evolving to a young creative chef. It is a vulnerable, sensitive and poetic introduction to the chaos and creativity that became Anthony Bourdain's life as a cultural batboy who traveled the world exploring culinary secrets and whom died tragically, by his own hand, in 2018. It is a must-see film, one of the top 5 this year.