Anthony Bourdain - Liberia

 I don't even know where to start.  What a freaking cop-out this episode was.    I love this show, and admire anyone (ANYONE) with the stones to go to Liberia ,  BUT, how can you go to a country that recently had a civil war (or two, or so) where 10-year-olds on heroin, dressed in drag were eating the hearts and livers of people they killed, while other make-shift armies roamed around naked, or dressed in costumes, or painted up, or all of the above, raping, torturing, and sacrificing along the way, and make it boring?    Christ, the previous president of the place was not only deposed, he was eaten   (at least some of him).  You don't hear that every day.    To make things even more interesting (?), the guy behind all of that was some guy who went to school at sleepy Bentley College, who is presently in the middle of a war crimes trial in The Hague, and has something to do with Naomi Campbell, who has actually been called to testify in the damn thing.  How can you make that boring?

Well, somehow they managed.  I'm also trying to decipher what the heck AB was talking about as they flew out of tribal camp north of Monrovia.  As near as I can figure, it was something along the lines of "sure, a few of these smiling little kids will get cooked and eaten this year, but, hey, they were really nice to me, and who am I to judge?"  

In all, it seems like there was a decent story to be told, but they didn't feel like telling it. There's no other way to jive Tony's very pessimistic appraisal of Liberia's future at the end of the show with the dancing, smiling, surfing crap we saw for most of it.  Really an odd episode.