The WORST episodes of This is Life with Lisa Ling

#1 - Got Sperm?

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/4/2022

#2 - Sex, Love, and Techology

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/27/2022

#3 - Gender Fluidity

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2018

Lisa Ling explores the revolution going on in how people think about genders. She meets individuals across the spectrum who are seeking acceptance from those closest to them.

#4 - The Conspiracy Effect

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2021

#5 - American Militias

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2021

#6 - The Legacy of Vincent Chin

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2021

#7 - LA's Mental Health Crisis

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/11/2022

#8 - America's First Muslims

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2017

Islam has a long history in America; Lisa meets 3 different African American Muslims; learning about the power of Islam to reshape lives in the black community.

#9 - Gay Rodeo

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2014

The image of the American cowboy is tough, self reliant, stoic and the epitome of masculine; Lisa explores the world of the Gay Rodeo Association having over 5,000 registered members and about 200 core competitors who prove that cowboys can be gay.

#10 - Children of Killers

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2018

Lisa Ling explores the lives of the children of mass murderers.

#11 - The Satanists Next Door

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/13/2015

Lisa engages the Satanic Temple, one of the most controversial religious groups in America, as they protest and unveil a 1-ton monument dedicated to Satan in Detroit.

#12 - Children of the Prophet

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2015

Two children of imprisoned Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints prophet Warren Jeffs give their first ever television interview.

#13 - Called To The Collar

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2014

Lisa travels to the Midwest, where more Catholic men are being drawn to the priesthood than anywhere else in the county, in a time where the Catholic population is on the rise, but the number of Catholic priests is dwindling.

#14 - Prison Love

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/2016

Lisa Ling investigates what drives women to seek a romantic companionship with a prison inmate.

#15 - Screen Addiction

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2018

Lisa Ling goes in depth into the role technology plays in the mental health crisis.

#16 - Sex Work: Past, Present, & Future

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2021

#17 - Tiger Queens

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/4/2022

#18 - Swingers

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2019

Lisa Ling attends the country’s largest swingers party in New Orleans and learns how the swinging lifestyle is evolving into a movement for total sexual freedom.

#19 - Faces That Sell

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2015

Aspiring models who beat the odds and make it into the industry soon learn that it is more challenging and not as glamorous as they thought.

#20 - When Heroin Hits Home

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/2020

Lisa Ling witnesses what happens when heroin addiction hits home. From children forced to grow up way too soon, to people in the throes of addiction fighting to get clean and keep their babies, to families and agencies working with addicts to create safe homes and win custody of their children.

#21 - Women Who Fight

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2016

Lisa Ling enters the octagon with three female MMA fighters changing the perception of ultimate fighting.

#22 - Modern Love

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2017

Polygamy in America used to be known as something practiced solely in Mormon country; a growing crop of unorthodox dating websites puts a new spin on multiple marriage; Lisa meets open-minded singles, couples and "throuples."

#23 - Fighting Terror In NYC

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2019

In the weeks leading up to New Year’s Eve, Lisa Ling embeds with the NYPD to find out what it takes to keep NYC safe from terror threats.

#24 - Silicon Savants

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2016

Lisa Ling meets ambitious young people in San Francisco hoping to become the next Mark Zuckerberg.

#25 - Under the Gun

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2020

Lisa Ling meets people from all walks of life who have joined “the club no one wants to be a part of” – families of victims and survivors – who are joining forces to support each other and fight gun violence.