James Walton

For all its absurdity, it delivers the goods: BBC2’s Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America reviewed

Plus: a heart-warming documentary about how oil transformed the small Highland town of Nigg

Louis Theroux heroically managing not to say ‘no’ when they ended their stoned rambles with the words ‘You know what I’m saying?’ Image: BBC / Mindhouse Productions / Dan Dewsbury 
issue 26 February 2022
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In the latest episode of Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, Louis asked a rapper called Broke Baby if ‘it’s important to keep it real’. ‘You have to play your role,’ replied Broke by way of apparent agreement. Given how stoned he was, this neat paradox — that you keep it real by pretending to — mightn’t have been wholly intended.

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