Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998)
BBC

Description

Theroux says: "Weird weekends sets out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don't have to play up that stuff. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd."

Tags

USA, Rap, Survivalists, Pornography

Collected reviews and ratings

9.0 Amazon (UK) user reviews

From the frighteningly deluded to the mildly eccentric, Louis always finds some way to connect with the people he meets and as a result the series continues to rise above any desire to become overly voyeuristic, to patronise or to judge. Surreal, sometimes disturbing, and often very, very funny indeed.
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8.0 DVD Times | Raphael Pour-Hashemi

Surprisingly rich with warmth and genuine humour, combined with an absurd dose of surreal American behaviour, Weird Weekends remains as one of the best observed little treats to hit our television screens.
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