''Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends'' is a

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series, in which

Louis Theroux Louis Sebastian Theroux (; born 20 May 1970) is a British-American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. After graduating fro ...

gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experience up close. In most cases this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. It was first shown in the United Kingdom on

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. In 2001, Theroux was awarded the

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as well as the Best Presenter BAFTA for his work on the series. Louis Theroux's view on ''Weird Weekends'':

Episodes

Series overview

Series 1 (1998)

Series 2 (1999)

Series 3 (2000)

Book

In 2005 Louis released a book called ''The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures'' where he revisits people he previously interviewed for the Weird Weekends documentaries. He attempts to track down ten of his subjects, up to seven years after the shows, claiming a desire to see what "changes in their subcultures might say about the changes in the world at large", or at least "curious of what became of some of the odd folk egot to know". He tracks down Thor Templar (alien resistance commander), JJ Michaels (porn star),

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(musician and ex-husband of

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, from an uncompleted episode), Mike Cain (survivalist), Haley (prostitute), Jerry Gruidl (

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), Mello T (pimp turned rapper), Oscody (survivor of Heaven's Gate, also from an incomplete episode), Marshall Sylver (Hypnotist), and Lamb & Lynx (the singing White Nationalist twins – aged 11).

References

External links

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Weird Weekends ''Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends'' is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experien ...