Trailer For Jon Cryer's Fascinating New Series DEVOURED That Mixes the Worlds of True Crime and Culinary History
A new trailer has been released for the new series premiering this week on Vice TV titled Devoured. The series, narrated by Jon Cryer (Pretty in Pink, Two and a Half Men), is “the first television series to merge true crime and food. Devoured explores the foods Americans love while uncovering the sordid secrets and criminal pasts that restauranteurs, chefs, and foodies have tried to hide- recipe thefts, mob beatdowns, family betrayals, and murder.
“Each one-hour episode of Devoured will be a deep dive into a single true crime story that centers on one American city or region’s food specialty. Viewers will be taken through a thrill-ride of twists and turns as narrator Jon Cryer uncovers the unbelievable stories of how food fuels criminal enterprises, both large and small. Along the way, the series dishes up the food’s origin story and impact on the culinary landscape — while revealing how our passion for eating well can become a recipe for doing wrong.”
This looks like such a fun original series! I love true crime, and my husband loves food shows as well as history series, so we are both looking forward to this one.
The series will kick off with an episode dedicated to exploring how the mafia took justice into their own hands after a secret family recipe was stolen from Brooklyn's L&B Spumoni Gardens & Pizzeria. Other installments in the series will cover “The Codfather,” who ran one of the largest fishing operations in the United States until he was taken down by the IRS for fishy business practices, the 2015 Blue Bell Ice Cream listeria outbreak, and how infidelity and a stolen recipe led to the end of New York’s world famous Carnegie Deli.
Check out the trailer below, and watch Devoured on VICE TV beginning on February 21st at 10 PM ET/PT.