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Louis Theroux - Drinking to Oblivion

  • 25-04-2016 5:56pm
    #1
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭


    I was just about to head to bed last night when this started. I'm glad that I didn't because it was another chapter in the engrossing catalog of Mr Theroux, perhaps his crowning glory.

    Theroux has always been an empathetic host, not in a contrived mawkish way, but in a genuine curious detached way. The show is never about him, rather about the gradual build up of trust with his subjects that gives the viewer a warts and all insight.

    During most of the show I was halfway between puking and crying but I couldn't bring myself to turn it off. It was engrossing and important but at all times difficult. There was some redemption but a lot of lost souls.

    In summary it was brilliant television and highly recommended.
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  • #2
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Jasus your man gary was an awful bastard


  • #3
    Den_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Den_M


    Louis' documentaries are an oasis in the desert of ****e TV that gets made these days.

    His features about paedophilia, crime, plastic surgery, gambling, nazis and others are some 9f the most interesting and involving TV I've ever seen. Give that man a knighthood (even though a knighthood isn't the kind of thing I usually give a fiddlers about)


  • #4
    ERG89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    New Louis Theroux documentary tonight at 9 on bbc 2. The subject is people dealing with brain injuries. Just said I'd bump this thread as I rarely know when his new docs are on.


  • #5
    willmunny1990
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    He has a doc about scientology too which id love to see but it hasn't been released yet.


  • #6
    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    I do enjoy Louis' work, but I'd rather he went a bit deeper.

    Alcoholism is a nasty insidious addiction that destroys the life of the alcoholic and the people around the alcoholic, it's a long term problem. It simply can't be investigated thoroughly in a documentary that spans a few short weeks.

    I'd love to see him embark on a long term project documenting alcoholism and following people over time. Perhaps he will do a follow up.

    I find the same issue with a lot of his work, enjoyable though it is, it only scrapes the surface and I want to see more.


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  • #7
    vidor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭vidor


    Bleak outlook for Dan, as he logically noted to his supervisor. If he's not allowed to leave at this stage because of the possibility of him crossing the path of drink/drugs, then when will he ever be released? As he said, his past behaviour will always be there and it seems like they'll forever use that to keep him locked up.


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