I watched nothing but Louis Theroux films for a whole, weird weekend – and here's what I learned

From documentaries about neo-Nazis to soul-searching mea culpas, you can gain a lot from concentrated time with a master

Louis Theroux’s first series for television, in 1998, was a series of documentaries called Weird Weekends. The central conceit was that Theroux, an innocent abroad, would spend time in a community that was considered fringe, and tell us their stories.

Since the series first aired, there is now enough Louis Theroux available on streaming services that it is possible to spend a weird weekend entirely with him. So that is what I did. I sat inside and watched nothing but Louis Theroux films for a whole, weird weekend.

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