Louis Theroux - New Series

[Ouroboros]

This was very much on point, and it comes down to the fact you can make a lot of money off this.

Very interesting and makes me sad to be a man really considering how much hate is coming from these guys.

Edited by Ouroboros on Sunday 20th February 17:18

[Driver101]

I can't get into it tonight.

[DoubleSix]

z4RRSchris said:

i thought louis missed a massive trick with this ep, and seems to have lost his way a bit.

He used to just let the people hang themselves, innocently play dumb and prod them a little.

Now hes going in full woke hard hitting questioning, which just means his subjects tell him to fk off. He would have got alot better footage and for longer if he had been odl louis.

Those days are gone. Louis’ profile is too big these days for him to subtly allow the interviewee to forget who side he is on.

[Old Man Peabody]

Driver101 said:

I can't get into it tonight.

Same here

Seems a bit irrelevant to a British audience, even more so than last week.

[daddy cool]

Whole episode reminded me of this
https://youtu.be/RrZlWw8Di10

[gregs656]

I'll give it a go.

I was browsing for something to watch last night and found the 3rd episode of the Westboro Baptist Church lot. Having watched that I am not sure his style has changed so much. He was quite strident in his questions, the difference is that group is strident in their opinions - so it all matches up.

I don't think anyone completely understands how big of a problem dog whistling, double speak and euphemism is in politics and the media right now, and how it will play out over the next little while.

[Ouroboros]

i enjoyed them so far, i think it more about the youth today. Everyone wants to make money through social media.

[Composer62]

We switched the Florida rappers one off. I've never done that with a Louis episode. It was of no interest to us at all.

As was mentioned today in the Telegraph, he could have saved a load of tax payers money by looking at the same phenomenon in London. That would have been much more relevant.

[768]

Composer62 said:

As was mentioned today in the Telegraph, he could have saved a load of tax payers money by looking at the same phenomenon in London.

He has his own production company, he makes the films he wants to and the BBC are just the distributor he chose rather than Netflix or Amazon.

I can't imagine the cost of the plane tickets are in the picture at all.

[Bluedot]

Composer62 said:

We switched the Florida rappers one off. I've never done that with a Louis episode. It was of no interest to us at all.

As was mentioned today in the Telegraph, he could have saved a load of tax payers money by looking at the same phenomenon in London. That would have been much more relevant.

We watched it all but were just talking through most of it or just laughing at it.
Agree about the London comment.

[Ouroboros]

LT has been doing US stuff for years, I think he lives out there, not really a shock is it, he is US centric.

[Ivo Shandor]

Looking at the problems in that london might be too close to home for the Beeb, easier to show how mental it is in the USA, the cultural whipping boy.

[paulguitar]

Ouroboros said:

LT has been doing US stuff for years, I think he lives out there, not really a shock is it, he is US centric.

He's half American and has dual citizenship. His dad is American. (Paul Theroux, the writer).

[Randy Winkman]

768 said:

Composer62 said:

As was mentioned today in the Telegraph, he could have saved a load of tax payers money by looking at the same phenomenon in London.

He has his own production company, he makes the films he wants to and the BBC are just the distributor he chose rather than Netflix or Amazon.

I can't imagine the cost of the plane tickets are in the picture at all.

Exactly. But the main point for the Telegraph would have been to moan about the BBC.

I quite enjoyed last night's but take the point about it seeming miles away meaning I wondered what the relevance was in the UK. I smirked a bit about the "do they or don't they?" take drugs thing and liked Louis's question which was basically whether it was cool or not to do coke. Also that they couldn't possibly say that they are scared of anything on the street even though that was the threat, not the cops. The loyalty thing reminded me that gangs have been the same since day one. Total loyalty up to the point where the sh*t hits the fan. The recent ITV documentary about the Krays confirmed that loyalty only goes so far.

[entropy]

Odd series and not quite the LT of the recent past. Rather than as a mere observer and allowing the viewer to make up their minds he appears to look down on his subjects with contempt as a way to open up their shallow, baseless personalities masked over by machismo as the struggles to navigate through web2.0.

Fun fact: Louis is a massive hip-hop fan.

[poo at Paul's]

entropy said:

Fun fact: Louis is a massive hip-hop fan.

Fo shizzle?

[number2]

entropy said:

Odd series and not quite the LT of the recent past. Rather than as a mere observer and allowing the viewer to make up their minds he appears to look down on his subjects with contempt as a way to open up their shallow, baseless personalities masked over by machismo as the struggles to navigate through web2.0.

Fun fact: Louis is a massive hip-hop fan.

So when he said he liked the rapper's music he meant it .

It all seems a bit 'old hat' these days. Maybe it's because I've been exposed to most of this through the media, and more people are doing it.

[hairykrishna]

Louis has always challenged the opinions of the people he's interviewing and asked difficult questions. He just normally manages it without aggravating his subject. The streamers were just a mix of super thin skinned and deliberately confrontational.

[Ivo Shandor]

Or in other words...teenagers...yes I know they're much older but I think the web is stretching out the millennials teenage years to their 30's.

[airsafari87]

Whilst the rappers episode was not the strongest episode, it was still interesting if you stuck with it and it drew some very strong parallels with the right wing episode last week.

Young guys acting out a life that they feel is expected of them in order to keep their social media acolytes happy.

I got the impression that a lot of them didn't really believe in the things they were trying to say and the image they were trying to portray.

All the glorification about drugs and guns in their music wasn't really about drugs and guns at all. It was just being ironic, or a play on words or joking around. It wasn't really about drugs or guns at all. No, no, no, they were rapping about Crayons!!