He’s wrestled until he vomits, posed naked for adult photos and now he’s about to take on the manosphere for Netflix. We look back at the interviewer’s most jaw-dropping shows
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t has been almost 30 years since Louis Theroux began making documentaries for the BBC. Few could have predicted that the endearingly dorky figure who made his first series, Weird Weekends – throwing himself, gonzo-style, into strange American subcultures – would become a public figure as famous as many of his celebrity interviewees.
With nearly 100 BBC titles under his belt, Theroux is now moving over to Netflix. Inside the Manosphere, the first programme he has presented for the streamer, dives into the world of the men’s rights movement, and explorations of masculinity, in the extremely online era. Ahead of its release on 11 March, we pick out 20 of Theroux’s finest docs to date.
A fascinating dive into a world of people preparing for the worst-case scenarios of societal collapse. Theroux gets drunk and sleeps at the house of an environmentalist living in an underground bunker, shoots guns with heavily armed rightwing patriots and learns about the plans of an Aryan Nation church who are gearing up to tackle a potential invasion from a “new world order”.
