Pop Culture Happy Hour · August 21, 2026 · 22m

Tony and What’s Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour reviews the new Anthony Bourdain biopic 'Tony,' which stars Dominic Sessa as a young, pre-fame Bourdain. The film focuses on a pivotal summer in 1975 when Tony worked his first kitchen job in Provincetown, and the hosts consider whether it rises above standard biopic conventions.

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A Pre-Fame Bourdain

The film zooms in on Anthony Bourdain before he was a public figure, showing him as a wayward and overconfident young man working his first kitchen job in Provincetown in 1975.

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Dominic Sessa’s Performance

Dominic Sessa plays the young Bourdain as an overconfident, rough-edged aspiring cook.

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