Louis Theroux - New Series
Discussion
BBC2 9PM on Sunday 22nd March
"Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness.
They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society.
Exploring the nature of mental illness, Louis spends time with the small subsection of sufferers who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in an attempt to understand how society cares for some of its most vulnerable and most dangerous members.
In this first episode, Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question - when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?"
"Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness.
They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society.
Exploring the nature of mental illness, Louis spends time with the small subsection of sufferers who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in an attempt to understand how society cares for some of its most vulnerable and most dangerous members.
In this first episode, Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question - when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?"
Martin4x4 said:
Don't see how this can work.
His talent is the way he keeps feeding his subjects rope as they hang themselves.
I'm not sure what you mean, I think there is plenty of mileage in the subject matter here.His talent is the way he keeps feeding his subjects rope as they hang themselves.
Anyway, I love LT, his documentaries are great, and I was very pleased to find most of them on Netflix, so I watched them all at the back end of last year. I absolutely love the clip in the first Westboro Baptist church episode where one of the zealots tells him that Jews "worship the rectum", and Theroux responds sounding mystified, baffled and disbelieving with "The rectum?!".
Chris_H said:
BBC2 9PM on Sunday 22nd March
"Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness.
They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society.
Exploring the nature of mental illness, Louis spends time with the small subsection of sufferers who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in an attempt to understand how society cares for some of its most vulnerable and most dangerous members.
In this first episode, Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question - when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?"
b"Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness.
They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society.
Exploring the nature of mental illness, Louis spends time with the small subsection of sufferers who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in an attempt to understand how society cares for some of its most vulnerable and most dangerous members.
In this first episode, Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question - when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?"
ks! Missed it!
this is a VERY different style to "Weird Weekends" and some of his other documentaries (westboro etc...) recently he has been doing more serious stuff and tackling some serious issues... (so its not really more of the same!!) really enjoyed this episode! he was a better Doc to the patients than the Docs were! there is also a Scientology Doc. on the way soon too!
I take it these places are government funded, and are more like a prison than a hospital? There's no way they could afford years of 'treatment'. I know they should be punished for their serious crimes, but if they are mentally ill, then keeping them indoors all day, away from civilisation is only going to damage them more. I'm not saying set them free, but assisted trips out every so often might help.
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