Louis Theroux - New Series

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Chris_H

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277 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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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?"

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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smithyithy

7,191 posts

117 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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Great, will set a reminder. Always like his stuff, watched it all on Netflix not long ago.

Ruskie

3,982 posts

199 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Great stuff. Love the reruns on Netflix.

Escort3500

11,827 posts

144 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Very watchable, he has a great knack of getting a lot out of the people he meets and isn't wooden like the dreadful Trevor McDonald.

Martin4x4

6,506 posts

131 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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Don't see how this can work.

His talent is the way he keeps feeding his subjects rope as they hang themselves.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Saturday 21st March 2015
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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.

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?!". hehe

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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He ha sbeen around a long time now but he has not changed much.Same old stuff.

CTO

2,643 posts

209 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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I used to work in a regional secure forensic setting. UK version of the one on tonight's LT. Met some very interesting and very sad individuals.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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"Were you brought up in a family that was a little emotionally constipated" laugh

AlanMinium

2,135 posts

246 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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The most mental person in it is the blonde doctor! VERY worrying individual!

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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It must take a special type of person to go through years of medical study and training and then choose to work in one of these institutions. I know someone has to do it but I can't imagine it's at the top of anyones list.

Edited by BlackLabel on Sunday 22 March 22:28

CTO

2,643 posts

209 months

Sunday 22nd March 2015
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AlanMinium said:
The most mental person in it is the blonde doctor! VERY worrying individual!
Full agreement with this.


Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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CTO said:
AlanMinium said:
The most mental person in it is the blonde doctor! VERY worrying individual!
Full agreement with this.
hehe I said exact the same thing , she was wired way too tight

Art0ir

9,401 posts

169 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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Caught the tail end of it, always been a huge LT fan. Nazis, Westboro, Pron, Prison... all brilliant.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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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?"
bks! Missed it!

Mcphisto

830 posts

134 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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It's repeated tonight at 11.50 on BBC2 smile

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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Mcphisto said:
It's repeated tonight at 11.50 on BBC2 smile
Ace! Ta much!

Lynchie999

3,421 posts

152 months

Monday 23rd March 2015
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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!

North West Tom

11,511 posts

176 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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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.