Weird +wacky! (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends)

Member Name: michelle2000

Product:	Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
Date:	06/11/00 (139 review reads)
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Advantages: Informative, strange and funny at the same time

Disadvantages: Only on once a week for 50 mins!!!

If you think that this is yet another boring fly-on-the-wall documentary, think again. After hearing loads about a programme full of dodgy people and their weirdo lives I thought that I better give this programme a go. I can tell you, that after watching it once, you'll be hooked on it every week.

The programme is based on the lives of "weird" people and Louis Theroux's job (the interviewer) is to discover why they do what they do. The programme deals with issues that are normally ignored by "serious" documentaries.

On the most recent programmes, Louis Theroux has visited Thailand where Thai women are "married off" to Western men who can't get women of their own. It was a real eye-opener to see how these women are graded and placed into catalogues for men to choose from. Of course, you can imagine the type of person who was running the agency - some old, disgusting man with a big nose going out with loads of Thai girls in their 20's - urghh...
Another time, rap artists in the U.S.A were investigated,aswell as female bodybuilders(but you could have thought some of them were male.)

The thing is, what makes the programme so good is not just the strange people on it but Louis Theroux himself. Something which is original about him in comparison to other presenters on TV is that he is down-to-earth and doesn't try to steal the show and act all big-headed. Aswell as sounding interested, he does make fun of the people sometimes, but in a really clever and subtle way, ensuring that there is some humour in the programme.

I highly reccommend this programme, and although the series has finished now (I think), hopefully we will get some more weird weekends brought to our televisions soon.

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