The BEST episodes directed by Geoffrey O'connor
#1 - Porn
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - Season 1 - Episode 3
Louis Theroux investigates the world of the male porn performer. With his finely-honed physique and classy English accent, he doesn't have to wait long before landing his first part, playing the all-important part of park ranger.
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#2 - Swingers
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - Season 2 - Episode 2
Louis Theroux continues his exploration of the fringes of American society. He visits Southern California, home to a group of people known as swingers. There he meets Gary and Margaret Lee who host parties at their home but only for swinger couples, so Louis goes searching for a date.
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#3 - The Most Hated Family in America
BBC Documentaries - Season 2007 - Episode 36
Louis struggles to come to terms with the infamous family who picket the funerals of soldiers in protest against an America that tolerates homosexuality.
#4 - The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
BBC Documentaries - Season 2009 - Episode 77
Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug. As he infiltrates the town, he experiences the reality of meth abuse, as addicts who are high (or 'tweaking', as it is known) invite him into their homes to see them take hit after hit of their favourite drug. Louis becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled confusion which is breaking this community apart. He sees its impact through the eyes of the local police, and meets Diane and Karl, a couple who have sustained their marriage despite a 25-year meth addiction and losing custody of their five children. He witnesses arrests of sons doing meth with their mothers, and family after family broken apart from generations of meth abuse. At the Westcare residential centre, Louis sees the work being done to combat the destruction caused by the drug. Run by ex-addicts, it offers a six-month rehab programme. He witnesses the extraordinary challenges they face dealing with meth-addicted families - babies born already hooked, with mothers caring for them while attempting to kick their own habit too. Addiction is laid bare as Louis seeks out the stories and the people behind the drug.
#5 - Surviving America's Most Hated Family
Louis Theroux - Season 1 - Episode 39
Thirteen years since first encountering one of America's most notorious hate groups, award-winning film-maker Louis Theroux makes a long-anticipated return to Kansas to spend time with the Westboro Baptist Church - a hugely-controversial Christian ministry that for years has picketed at military funerals and other high-profile events with deliberately provocative and homophobic placards. Immersing himself in the strange world of Westboro, Louis explores what happens when a hate-group largely populated by one family loses its patriarch.
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#6 - Weird Christmas
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - Season 1 - Episode 5
Louis hooks up with four "weird" people, starring in the first season of his "Weird Weekends" documentary: fundamental Christian Randy James, reverend Robert Short, porn-star J.J. Michaels, and survivalist Mike Oehler, and spends Christmas with them.
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