Louis Theroux tonight

[Lighthousekeeping]

Looks interesting and very sad.

Superb programme although difficult viewing, especially the final scenes where we learned what Craig had done.

Come on, does anybody here think that the female offender is a risk to children and shouldn't be allowed near playgrounds? Surely not. The laws were shown up for what they really are, a hopelessly inadequate, one size fits all attempt to label and control a group of troubled people who have no more in common with each other than with the general population.

I think we need more programmes like this, of course nobody sympathized more with the criminals than with the victims, but we need to see these issues objectively and from a variety of angles.

This series has been quite astonishing, Theroux should win an award imo.

I don't know why but I love it when his subjects call him Louis, like they know and trust him. It makes me feel inexplicably proud?

It's 'cos he's one of us (a Brit), I think. He wrote a really funny magazine piece recently about living in LA with his family but trying to not become all Hollywood about it. Sorry, can't remember which mag.

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Oops, don't know what I did there!

I thought the young guy in the forest was the creepiest. His eyes were so shifty.

Guy in van who walked in the woods seemed to be unstable to me seem like he would explode at any time. And the mother who had sex with teenager seemed to have boundary issues, felt so sad for her children

I did actually feel for the guy jimmy who talked about his dysfunctional upbringing.

Regarding the man who lived in the woods, I was wondering how I would feel and behave if at the age of, say 18, I was at a party drinking with mates and ended up engaging in sexual activity with a boy I have no clue is 13 or 14. And then this is my future, forever. No job, no leisure activities, no social media (Internet access?).

Makes me think about my sons who in time at all are going to be at house parties, drinking and with girls.

Another thing that struck me was the apparent lack of counselling.

A few hadn't had to acknowledge the seriousness of their crimes and the effect on victims, they were able to make up all sorts of fantasies and not have to take responsibility for their crimes.

Others seemed completely confused (the mother, and the man in the van) about what they could do, where they could go, what was acceptable. The mother especially seemed to be mentally torturing herself with compulsive thoughts. There was the man who had tried to castrate himself in an attempt to escape the situation.

And the homelessness.

It all seemed so draconian and inhumane.

Louis did a great job (as always) of balancing the human side of these stories whilst still keeping very much at the forefront of the programme, the unforgivable nature of their crimes.

Saw this last night - the homelessness seems particularly pointless, can't see how it makes the world safer.

I found watching the end of the programme very difficult - Louis also seemed conflicted having got to know someone who then admitted to a horrible crime out of revenge to his ex.

The man at the end used his wife as an excuse. I don't for a second believe that you sexually abuse your 10 year old sons because your wife cheats. You have to be a paedophile in the first place. He made me dislike him even more for using the unfaithfulness as an excuse. Even after 20 years he isn't man enough to just admit his crime and what he is/was.

I don't have any sympathy for the Mother. I feel for her children losing their Mum. Under no circumstances can any adult have sex with a 14 year old boy.

Yes just crazy to think bundling people away from society really is going to stop people reoffending.

The homeless man living in the woods wouldn't answer Louis question about how the girl felt about the sexual act. Basically telling the viewer that the man raped the girl.

Think Louis has done so well due to his ability to manage all sorts of people so well.