He claims to have killed more than twenty aliens. One of these is a man called Thor Templar, the self-titled 'Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate'. This episode follows several people who believe in UFOs. In Dallas, Louis meets TV evangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, and joins a group of hardline Christians called ' The Family' as they visit the Deep Ellum entertainment district. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd.Įpisodes Series overview Series
The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. Weird Weekends sets out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. In 2001, Theroux was awarded the Richard Dimbleby Award as well as the Best Presenter BAFTA for his work on the series.
It was first shown in the United Kingdom on BBC2. 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. 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 experience up close.
