LOUIS THEROUX S/D

this was a bit boring, generally.

I think, possibly, that this was how it should be. Not great entertainment maybe.

I mean I didn't really find it boring but I then I'm slightly obsessed with crime and punishment.

I prefer The Idiot

i just watched the pedophile one. i liked it except the awkward shit at the end where he's badgering the "reformed" guy but there are always those weird parts in his shows. loved the pedo-choir & the halloween party. wtf @ the penis measuring thing though.

also that fucking guy with the long hair, ew. pedophiles.

I've never seen any of this guy's stuff, would really love to after reading that interview re: the Phelps family.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42745000/jpg/_42745223_family_bbc203.jpg

^^^!!!!LOL

I sat behind LT on a plane to Vegas once. He was v nice!

Was he goign to make this programme I wonder?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007957z

what do you mean?

Erm...I mean if he was on a plane going to Vegas maybe he was on his way to film the programme mentioned in that link.

hahaha

When was that episode made? This was in 2004 so I don't know.

first TX June 2007, it says on that webpage

Probably was just going for the hookers and gambling then.

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth - tonight on BBC2 (and then on iplayer presumably).

There was a really weird moment were Louis asked a guy what he was in for and he said, 'date rape'. The guy in question was mixing some kind of punch for their Halloween party and then was all, 'Hey Louis, wanna try some?'

― Mr Raif, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:39 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

"there's no rohypnol in it, is there? just kidding!"

― max arrrrrgh, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:07 (3 months ago)

i honestly can't remember if louis said that or i just made it up.

i love that there's a feature in the radio times explaining what crystal meth is

uh, this is depressing. might have to wall-e instead tbh.

*watch

that was his best doc in years

Great but depressing bit of work. Normally with these documentaries there's usually the hint of something more hopeful in the future, just didn't get it with this. Even Louis looked shocked and uncomfortable at some of the squalor he encountered.

Couldn't believe how much that long time user looked and sounded like George Bush.

I was thinking, when he was at that BBQ with the dealers, what a dangerous situation it was that he'd put himself in. I don't know how these programmes are made, but presumably it was just Louis with a cameraman and a soundman?

I'm not sure his style/personality really works for documentaries like this, he always seems ironised or removed and a bit emotionless which works with the kooks and freaks of wrestling or gambling but seems a bit off with something as sad as this

Just watching the Dirty South episode. Theroux and Master P is certainly a meeting of the minds.

Louis meets America's Medicated Kids

Thought this one was pretty good and suited his style a lot better than paedophiles and people addicted to crystal meth. He has another one airing soon, 'Law and Disorder in Lagos'.

Just watching the Dirty South episode. Theroux and Master P is certainly a meeting of the minds.

― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, October 14, 2009

fans of this ep may wanna check out

http://themartorialist.blogspot.com/2010/03/odyssey-to-find-mello-t.html

http://themartorialist.blogspot.com/2010/04/odyssey-to-find-mello-t-part-2.html

I need a picture of Louis' gangsta album cover with him regally stroking a cat.

I was on the bus yesterday, reading a newspaper over someone's shoulder, and there was an article by Theroux where he revealed that he was Nick Clegg's fag at public school. "When you say 'I want you to clean my shoes' what exactly do you mean by that? (awkward pause)"

xp
http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/362934.jpg

props to you sir! that is fantastic

6ft 2 in the compact, no slack
luckily the seats go back

Westboro Baptist Church - big Lady Gaga fans

another good show I thought, but I always end up with more questions than answers

Enjoyed LT descending into openly mocking the crazed filmmaker convert guy by the end - "well the Bible would say that wouldn't it"

The little gay Asian guy coulda been a documentary of his own, poor guy was so uncomfortable in his own skin

I know. Our Joel was all righteous teenage anger but I said to him "these people are just really deluded, not evil". I like it when Louis is upfront with his hosts and avoids that non-committal doubletalk thing.

Their justification for Obama being the Antichrist was pretty solid

Popular guy, powerful, doing the work of the Devil. Could be Charlie Sheen I guess.

he's done a second Westboro episode? did they welcome him back into the house again or?

Yeah, follow-up show cos several members have left since the first one. Relations were cordial but suspicious, for the most part.

cousin of the oirish villain in charlie's angels 2, which surprised me

Cool, look forward to it hitting the youtubes.

not Charlie's Angels 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticxD0GfewA&feature=player_embedded

u crazy charlie's angels 2 is the best

ty #0

This is worth watching with a thumb on the pause button, to catch the rival protesters signs. The best ones I managed to catch were "Tits or GTFO" and "Magnets: how do they work?"

The handiwork of Anonymous going by the Guy Fawkes mask

it's a shame they didn't spend more time interviewing the two girls who had left the church. Lauren, particularly, seemed like she had a lot more to say.

Yeah, she was pretty eloquent, but I did pessimistically wonder if they'd kept it sneakily short because leaving her on for ten minutes might have led to the depressing revelation that she'd only dialed back to a less batshit brand of bigotry - was possibly thinking of the similar recent non-Louis Amish doc where the family basically defected/got excommunicated and just went out and found different (in that case actually worse) ways of expressing their fanaticism

The time constraints led to it being framed as a debate between Humanist Louis and blinded-by-rage liberal students on one side and a cult of radge quasi-Christians on the other, and he had to frequently acknowledge the minimal chance of them ever having enough common ground to not argue past each other - when he first went in 06 did he involve any marginally less mental Christians as a comparison? The kicker with the Westboro people is that they're the people even right wing fundamentalist Christians think are nuts, right??