Louis is back!
If you’re missing your regular fix of Louis Theroux, you’ll be delighted to know that Netflix are adding some of his most recent work to their library but the good news doesn’t stop there.
As stated previously, the documentarian has three new features that will air on the BBC this year and we’re going back to the US as Louis looks the “unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death.”
In his most recent series, Dark States, Theroux examined gun crime, heroin addiction and prostitution in his own magnificent way, but in his new show on BBC Two, we’re told that “changing social attitudes and radical new laws have transformed how Americans can experience some of life’s most intimate moments – how we raise children, how we love and even how we die.”
With regards to his new features, Theroux said: “I have always been interested in how people conduct the most intimate aspects of their lives. For this series we looked at the new ways Americans are approaching some of humanity’s oldest dilemmas: pregnant mums who feel unequipped to keep their babies and so pick new parents for them; the world of polyamory aka ‘ethical non-monogamy’; and people with debilitating conditions who opt to hasten their own deaths.”
He adds: “All of these stories have something a touch utopian about them, involving a kind of idealism and forward thinking that brings new opportunities but also new risks. I have been given extraordinary levels of access to courageous people and families across the United States, many of them enduring unbelievable levels of stress and anguish, and it was a privilege to be allowed into their lives in this most personal way.”
Even more Louis Theroux?
Bring it on.
Louis Theroux’s Altered States will air in November.
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