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[Summer Haze]

I actually just finished watching the San Quentin doc an hour or so ago. Real sobering stuff. Makes me appreciate so many little things that I have the freedom of doing.

 

[jonno394]

There are plenty that I enjoyed, but the one real eye opener (at least for me) was the one where he spend a while living in the Brothel. Seeing some of the guys and hearing why they used prostitutes (as well as seeing the girls and their reasons etc) really changed how I though of paying for sex.

 

[Dascu]

I don't think I've ever seen Theroux going too far with good, nice people.

His modus operandi is what makes him great: he comes as meeky and inofensive, lets his interviewee talk comfortably for a good while and then sneaks a couple of dastardly questions when they least expect it, either getting a sincere, unsuspecting response, or the kind of reaction that can't hide what they really think.

He's a master at his game.

He's the Columbo of interviewers.

 

[thelatestmodel]

I actually just finished watching the San Quentin doc an hour or so ago. Real sobering stuff. Makes me appreciate so many little things that I have the freedom of doing.

My girlfriend and I went through a phase of "watching prison", which just meant watching every documentary we could find on the US prison system. Fascinating, sobering and makes you appreciate your freedom on a new level.

I really can't wait for the Scientology one, as people have said - the BBC's "Scientology and Me" was a classic, so a new one with Louis Theroux is going to be amazing.

 

[Thornton Reed]

his act of pretending to be this naive, bumbling and overly polite english person to lull people into a false sense of security is getting a little old. I personally believe this is why he doesn't do much work here in the UK anymore

He's the Columbo of interviewers.

haha this is perfect

 

[DECK'ARD]

He's the Columbo of interviewers.

Hah, that's a great analogy.

 

[zerotol]

City addicted to crystal meth is another good doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCyFUrBo-rM

 

[FortuneFaded]

First part of new documentary on Sunday (BBC2 9 p.m.) about people found guilty by reason of insanity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31962182

 

[outunderthestars]

More links please.

 

[jesu]

Just found out about this.
I'll be watching on Sunday.

Preview for part 2 here as well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nyysy

 

[NekoFever]

It was brought forward after Top Gear was removed from the schedules, so thank Clarkson for this.

 

[Any Questions]

Louis rocks. Have watched most of his work. Guy is a must watch

 

[jelly]

Didn't he basically ask him if he was a paedo to his face and he didn't really deny it, actually alluded he got away with it for so long, how come nobody picked up on that back then.

can't wait to see "By Reason of Insanity".

Regarding his Scientology doc, I heard somewhere that he abandoned it, but that must've been rumor. Apparently it's still happening.

I remember him briefly mentioning it last year and he said it's been tough to get anyone to speak to them.

 

[mclem]

I really can't wait for the Scientology one, as people have said - the BBC's "Scientology and Me" was a classic, so a new one with Louis Theroux is going to be amazing.

Well, here's an entertaining development:

 

[Deleted member 13876]

That is going to be weird as balls.

 

[BunnyBear]

I love me some Theroux as well! Definitely listen to/watch the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he was on... It offers a great insight into his reasons for filming in the US as well as a lot of behind the scenes anecdotes.

You have one of the world's most engaging, fascinating person sitting right in front of you, with countless amounts of amazing experiences, and you barely let him get a word in edgewise for 30 minutes? I ended up just skipping around to find the times Louis was allowed to talk.

I came away from that podcast with the opinion Rogan is a narcissistic, faux-intellectual loudmouth. People like Louis just are intelligent and it oozes from them effortlessly, Rogan just seemed like he had to prove it.

Am I wrong about him? Never listened to him outside of that.

 

[mclem]

No release date yet, but it's coming:

Looks like it's a theatrical release rather than going for TV?

 

[lewisgone]

He really is the best. I think the last stuff I've seen was the Miami mega-jail, Ultra Zionists stuff three or four years back.

UK Netflix has pretty much all of his stuff, including the Weird Weekends series, except for the three LA Stories movies from last year.

Actually, the LA Stories series was just recently added to the UK service.

 

[Marvel]

Big fan of his myself.

Well, here's an entertaining development:

Oh wow, lol love is reaction though.

 

[mclem]

Big fan of his myself.



Oh wow, lol love is reaction though.

They're clearly going to dredge up some dark secret from his past.

 

[KAP151]

The Miami Jail is up there with my favourites.

What a truely horrible place for a human being to be.

 

[Marvel]

They're clearly going to dredge up some dark secret from his past.

Haha!

 

[| Praxis |]

You have one of the world's most engaging, fascinating person sitting right in front of you, with countless amounts of amazing experiences, and you barely let him get a word in edgewise for 30 minutes? I ended up just skipping around to find the times Louis was allowed to talk.

I came away from that podcast with the opinion Rogan is a narcissistic, faux-intellectual loudmouth. People like Louis just are intelligent and it oozes from them effortlessly, Rogan just seemed like he had to prove it.

Am I wrong about him? Never listened to him outside of that.

I listened to that podcast a while ago and couldn't agree more. Rogan was/is terrible. Such a waste of an interview with Louis.

My favourite moment is when Louis asks him what will be different in the future, and Joe says more people will wear ties.

 

[mclem]

More docs on the way!

Topics are extreme alcoholicism and brain injury:

BBC Two today announces that Louis Theroux will return this year with two films based in the UK, as he takes a look at alcohol addiction and brain injury.
In Drinking To Oblivion, Louis spends time at King’s College Hospital in London, where he immerses himself in the lives of patients who are in the grips of alcohol addiction, and the medical staff trying to make them better. The patients Louis meets are drinking far more than normal, sometimes to the point of self-destruction. There are many and complex reasons why people become addicted to alcohol in the first place, and why it is impossible for some to stop drinking, even when it is killing them.

To outsiders, stopping drinking may seem like an easy decision, but this will show it is nowhere near that simple. Louis spends time with patients and their families as they struggle to find a way out of their addiction to alcohol before it's too late.

In Brain Injury (working title), Louis takes a look at some of the issues that the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injury have to deal with. Louis spends time with staff and service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, one of the UK’s largest providers of neuro-behavioural rehabilitation, in an effort to understand how individuals and their families come to terms with this life-changing condition.

Often called a 'hidden disability’ because those affected can show little physical signs of change, individuals with Acquired Brain Injury face enormous cognitive, behavioural and personality challenges. Sufferers are left to reconstruct who they are - from relearning the basics of walking, talking and eating, to redeveloping complex personality and behavioural traits, often under the imposing shadow of who they once were. Family members are caught between grieving for the loved one they’ve lost and learning to love the person they are now.

There was mention last year of him making a followup to the Savile one, too; that's going to be tough to watch, I think. If it does happen, it's not in this block.

 

[| Praxis |]

Can't wait, although those subjects are going to be emotional. I am compelled to watch everything he does though.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Yeah I miss Louis just going into weird America.