Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends Reviews

Louis Theroux travels to Fresno, California to uncover the impact of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine, more commonly known as Crystal Meth. Fresno is a city riddled with poverty, unemployment, crime and homelessness. If this is not enough the city is coined the "methamphetamine capital" of the USA. The consequences of the drug ...  Read the complete review

Louis Theroux is a documentary maker with a difference. His work focuses on people and activities that most of us would consider at best, strange, and at worst disturbing. He has made documentaries on subjects ranging from Jimmy Saville, to white supremacists, and assorted topics in between. The key to his success in getting great ...  Read the complete review

Theroux always comes across as a likeable, affable kind of chap with a talent for getting into some of the wackiest corners of human existence, and presenting them with a straight face. It doesn't matter which side of the Atlantic or which continent he works on, the results are usually very similar. He harbours a genuine talent for ...  Read the complete review

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends contains the bulk of Louis Theroux's documentaries and in my opinion the best ones are all in this series. Firstly, for those who don't know who Louis Theroux is, he is a very well educated (Oxford university) interviewer who manages to get a lot out of interviewees by using a naive persona that lulls them into a ...  Read the complete review

There are around 300,000 Jewish people of working age in the UK, and very hard working and intelligent people too, but it feels like 278,000 of them are employed in the media, such is the prevalence and ease of guys like the likeable and disarming Louis Theroux to get on our TV screens, always room for one more Theroux in the entertainment ...  Read the complete review

Louis Theroux is a documentary maker. He has made them for recently the BBC with his peadophile documentary which is a good documentary but a bit unsettling. The weird weekends series was very interesting. He spent some time in a brothel. That was my favourite episode, purely because the prostitutes kept trying to get him involved and ...  Read the complete review

I had never watched a programme with Louis Theroux until this year and now I am hooked! He is one of the best documentary makers I have ever seen! I love the fact that he is so blunt and to the point in his questionning and he has no problems telling the person he is interviewing that their views and lifestyles are completely bizarre! I found the ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Oddball journalist Louis Theroux spends a weekend with an intriguing personality, making a documentary along the way. The show airs sporadically on the BBC. IS IT ANY GOOD: This is one of my favourite shows and it works for two simple reasons: 1) The host - Louis Theroux (son of travel writer Paul ...  Read the complete review

As television presenters go, what a breath of fresh air Louis Theroux is. There is nothing run-of-the-mill, boring or predictable about his programmes and his interviewing techniques are amazing. More often than not, I am sure the people he interviews forget they are being filmed and just end up chatting away to him as though no-one else were ...  Read the complete review

Its fitting that a high pressure passing over the UK caused a lot of weird interference on BBC2 as the equally mysterious world of Louis Theroux finally met the Hamiltons. The son of the famous travel writer walked out of Cambridge with the world at his feet. But the youthful freshfaced one choose his studious goodlucks and journalism to ...  Read the complete review

What can i say, the guy is without a doubt one of the most refreshing interviewers to have emerged on TV in the last few years. He sends himself up and unlike Alan Whicker or other presenters of that genre,he is not afraid to send himself up. I also enjoy the fact that his narration let's you know his true feelings but the guests ...  Read the complete review

What is it about Louis's interview technique that makes this program so watchable? I think it has something to do with the fact that he has a fairly passive technique. He just sits back and lets people say their piece. By choosing people with a particularly bigoted or just plain interesting view point he can then just fire off fairly simple ...  Read the complete review

I'm not sure where Louis Theroux sprang from, or what his background is in TV making, but he certainly must have some friends in high places to get his own series and on slightly "out of the ordinary" subjects. I first spotted Louis in an earlier show "when Louis met jimmy" where he interviewed Jimmy Saville. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Having only recently been introduced to Theroux's style of comedy, I must admit that the jury is still out on this one, as far as I'm concerned. The first show I saw it was hard to make out whether he was sending up the guests or himself; or maybe both. Either way he got away with it and it sort of worked. I did laugh so he must be ...  Read the complete review

This is a really enjoyable documentry series shown on BBC2.In each episode our eponimous hero investigates groups or activities that are rightly branded wierd. Louis Theroux is an excellent reporter who dos'nt hog the limelight and lets each week's subjects become the stars of that show.The show lasts about fifty minutes and this ...  Read the complete review

Louis struck gold yet again in his brilliant series with Monday evening's episode which featured the 'Introduction Services' available in Thailand to men from overseas seeking Thai women for marriage. Louis Theroux manages to convey in his interviewing style what every viewer must be feeling. Yet, he does this in a ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a big fan of documentaries but there's something about Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends that I just love. Louis comes across as the most genuine, easy going and likable personalities on TV today. He often seems completely out of his depth and you have to admire his boundless enthusiasm carry on when things go wrong. I ...  Read the complete review

Ruby Wax is american, thats why she can get away with filming in america and being as insulting as she is under the guise of "investigative reporting". Louis, now he's a real gent, if he finds things a bit strange he'll say so! Louis' first series of weird weekends was based in the states, he explored quite a few ...  Read the complete review

I have of late been witness to some very malicious bullying going on under this dooyoo malarky . One of their 'Guru's' no less , plus girlfriend have been stalking the opinions of a very dear friend of mine (who is an extremely NICE person ) and taking it in turns to slate her opinions and thereby lower her ...  Read the complete review