New details have emerged.
Louis Theroux returns next month with three new documentaries and it has finally been announced what they are about.
The three-film series is called Altered States and will “explore the unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death” and the changing laws that have transformed how the population experiences them.
We now know that the films will be specifically about polygamy, the adoption industry and assisted suicide.
The first film is called “Love Without Limits” and will focus on polygamy and ethical non-monogamy – “the practice of openly and transparently having multiple relationships that go further than just sex”.
Louis embeds himself with families living a polygamous lifestyle, discovering that “for many, more partners means more love and more happiness, but for others, multiple relationships have led to jealousy, upset and broken hearts”.
The next film is “Take My Baby”, which looks at the subject of the multi-million dollar industry around adoption.
Theroux spends time with both “birth mothers preparing to hand over their own flesh and blood,” uncovering stories of the poverty, addiction and abuse that led to their situations.
He also meets “the adoptive families paying out huge amounts of money in the hope of being able to raise a child they can’t have by natural means”.
Finally, there is “Choosing Death” where Louis heads to California, one of the “six states that now offer the terminally ill the option of ending their lives with a prescribed cocktail of drugs”.
He is invited into the family homes of those who want to end their own lives but discovers that “choosing the right time [to die] is not such a simple decision”.
Louis also meets “a group who provide information about how to die to those who don’t fit the criteria”.
Louis Theroux’s Altered States is due to air in November on BBC Two.
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