LOUIS THEROUX S/D

look like the beastie boys

mysterious organ

this gonzo dude is SO MUCH LIKE richard lewis on curb yr enthusiasm

except with more of an emphasis on pornography

It's unbelievable how much that guy aged in between the two movies. I literally didn't know people actually went to prison on obscenity charges!

he was pretty crazily coked up in the modern-day interview, right?

that would be the less worrying possibility

monte and his gf kagney/cagney (?) were quite touching tho

yeah, definitely. Louis makes excellent documentaries, his interview technique always yields much sharp material.

Favourite bit was the haggard cokefiend calling him "Louis Thorax"

Louis Thorax is not a bad pornstar name tbh

Louis Shag-her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnws3TAkSw

Foods chimpanzees eat:

• Mexican
• Chinese
• Ro-Tel dip
• hot dip
• spicy things
• pork rinds
• hot pork rinds
• Doritos

^^^ needs to be a poll

always loved louis but he's stepped it up massively with the more recent specials

some of tonight's was really difficult to watch

What was the new one about?

BBC Two @BBCTwo · 29 mrt.
Louis Theroux continues his examination of the grey area between criminal actions & medical symptoms at 9pm tonight.
Saw the announcement, didn't see the episode :-/

Trevor MacDonald's definitely got into Louis' are(n)a thesedays, with his "Mafia" series, that's on tonight episode 2 btw.

Thought last night's one about transgender kids was really good, with the caveat that I know nothing about trans issues so maybe there were glaring problems with it that I missed. He was v good with the kids and parents I thought.

That surgeon's hair though...

Found the "By Reason of Insanity" two-parter to be simultaneously fascinating and maybe his most exploitative thing yet. Long, torturous discussions of shocking crimes as told by the perpetrators for no reason good enough to justify them.

There's a surprising, uncomfortably funny moment in the first part where a delusional schizophrenic describes some hallucination involving Martin Luther King and Obama and his role in their lives and it's so matter of fact and absurd that Louis openly laughs at the guy.

i had some issues with the transgender children one - how everyone seemed to happily accept a lot of aspects of gender normativity, the strong preoccupation with bodies, biology, surgery etc, that surgeon's hair - but i did think it was good, quite moving.

the part where louis coaxed the mother into describing what he son did, despite her seeming unwilling to talk about it, was pretty unpleasant

(in pt2 of the insanity docs)

A new difficult to watch episode today - this time covering alcoholism in South London.

I wish some of his stuff would make it to American streaming.

Think it made it to torrent sites last night.

Available on Usenet too

Well worth hunting out wherever you find it. I thought it could have stood a longer treatment, like the multi-part prison ones, but even so it was very good. Difficult, emotional viewing, but not without some funny moments too.

Difficult to watch, but at the same time compelling and emotionally involving and draining. (I should have said above)

I watched about half of Rain In My Heart the other day, talk about harrowing.

after a whole weekend of drinking on a stag do, we got back to our canalboat, switched on the TV and this was playing.. I'm detoxing for at least a month.

Yes this was difficult. Really good. Joe's story was particularly affecting because he seemed like he might be one of us, like someone on here or be a friend. I drink far too much and I drink almost every night.

Yeah I read a review of this in the Graun and I'm not sure I want to see it, might be a little too close to home.

this was p harrowing.

particularly the relationship between aurelie and her bf.

That relationship was the most enlightening & original thing about the show. The medical effects of alcoholism have been covered many times before but that relationship is the sort of thing I've observed from a distance in park bench drunks dozens of times and wondered about what the dynamic might be like.

it is p weird and raw as far as the human condition goes

I like Louis a lot but I thought it was quite clumsy the way he brought up in the kitchen that the girlfriend was considering leaving her boyfriend.

I recognised one of the parks they were in in Brixton. Wondered if I'd ever passed by Aurelie on the street, most likely have at some point, been there so many times over the years.

Also the way he asked the guy about his father dying seemed tactless. I really don't like to think he tries to provoke these emotional reactions in people. Especially towards someone whose anxiety is ruining their life.

Actually yeah I just remembered what you're talking about. I also felt that was overstepping a bit to tell the guy she was thinking of leaving him but I guess if he didn't mention it then she said it on camera so he'd see it eventually.

Isn't that par for the course with Louis though - using a veneer of kindly naivety to say or ask something that most people wouldn't?

I think this was a bit too much though.

Yes, thinking back to it a bit more, you're right that it felt clumsily done in that instance (about her thinking of leaving him).

WAs this the first of a series of him or a complete one off? I'm not seeing any further programmes listed.

There's another one on Brain Injuries coming up, but I don't think it's been scheduled yet

Tonight at 9. A Different Brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyJOp-tK0k

lol and also wow

Wow the ending of the clip is awesome. Does it have a release date?