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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsLife on the Edge
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{{(((I
know Covid-19 has made the
clips-based TV show a necessity,
but for the first half of Louis
Theroux: Life on the Edge it felt
like an eccentric neighbour was
talking us through his 1990s holiday
slides. As Theroux sifted through the
cardboard boxes in his attic, then
showed a relevant piece of film, it felt
meandering and, as much as I love
him, somewhat self-indulgent.
Admittedly, I’m not much interested
in alien-chasers and survivalists, which
is how we kicked off, although theyoung Theroux looked so baby-faced
that I wanted to pinch his cheeks. But
then the racists saved the day. There’s
an unlikely sentence.
Theroux hit the jackpot by
reminding us of one of his all-time
best bits, when he visited a bunch of
Nazis in California and they
demanded, aggressively, to know if he
was Jewish. It was a menacing, toxic,
hideously ugly scene. “We want to
know if you’re a f***ing Jew,” they
yowled. “I have exposed myself, my
family; expose yourself now.” Theroux
did exactly the right thing in declining
to answer either way and play their
filthy game.
It wasn’t until he visited the woman
who forced her ten-year-old daughters
to form a Nazi pop group advocating
white power that you saw the strength
of Theroux’s deadpan silence and
faux-naivety. He let April yabber on
about making her cute girls “proud of
their race” as they did Nazi salutes and
talked happily about killing black
people in their favourite computer
game. It is 17 years on, but I still felt
my jaw fall open as it did the first time.
However, the golden postscript was
wasted. He got the twins, now aged 28,
to appear on Zoom for an update and
declare that they have completely
renounced those beliefs and think the
opposite. Which was a relief to hear,
but I wanted to know how they now
felt about their mother. Had they cuther off? What did they think of
Donald Trump? So many questions,
but in a flash they were gone.
It was still interesting to see
Theroux’s style develop from more
eager and earnest at first, then
gradually more laid-back and quiet,
hands in pockets. Few people have
a back catalogue as cracking as
Theroux’s and it was an hour well
spent. OK, make that 30 minutes.
I was harsh on Strike: Lethal White
last week because it was an unfocused,
implausible jumble. Last night it
remained implausible. How did Robin
(Holliday Grainger) escape from that
tiny bathroom at the hippy party? Or
know that piece of paper would be in
the tampon box? Why did she give her
married name so they tracked down
her wedding photo in 20 seconds?
However, the plot and dialogue
improved, largely thanks to Grainger
and her entertaining accents being
centre stage and — praise be! — Robin
dumping her tedious husband, who
had cheated on her in the marital bed.
“I don’t love you,” she said. “The truth
is I’d never have married you if I
hadn’t been raped.” Well! Quite the
crushing exit statement. And now that
Strike has dumped his girlfriend
presumably they will in due course
take down each other’s particulars.
The rest of the plot remains ropey.
I’m not entirely sure what’s happening,
Presenter Louis Theroux rummaged through his old programmes but I am sure that I don’t care.A trip down an eccentric, extremist memory lane
BBCCarol
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