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Summary: 30 Days to Change how you Think
Comment: Morgan Spurlock has done it again with this First Season (and Season Two) of 30 DAYS. These shows put the real in "realality" TV. It opens the eyes of people who are set in their own beliefs and then is able to open their minds to a new way of thinking. Spurlock should be the one that everyone ought to be watching . . . It can make you a better person by opening up your eyes while learning about other people's lives through "walking in their shows" method. A MUST SEE! For Everyone.
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Summary: Using The Medium
Comment: Television -- The Box That Dares Not Speak Its Name -- has such incredible power. It could be educational, bringing understanding and familiarity to people who otherwise would mistrust and disrespect each other from lack of contact. It could even out some of the disparities in our education system. It could teach critical thinking by exposing the fallacies of blind acceptance of unproven allegations.
Instead, it does... not.
Except when Morgan Spurlock's on the screen. His "Super Size Me" was a landmark documentary, exposing a corporate giant's avoidance of the truth about its products. And his series "30 Days" extends this same clear-eyed and intelligent investigation to a different subject each episode. Subtitled "Try Someone Else's Life On For Size," this is exactly what he does, and the results are some of the best TV ever broadcast.
This first season includes the following episodes:
* Minimum Wage - shows how the working poor fall through the cracks and in some ways are worse off than the unemployed
* Anti-Aging - how the pseudo-medical supplement industry preys on vanity with no regard for the health risks involved
* Muslims and America - what it's like to be a Muslim in post-9/11 America
* Straight Man in a Gay World - preconceptions dissolve (on both sides!) when worlds collide
* Off The Grid - how to live a totally green existence, and what this would mean to our accustomed standard of living
* Binge Drinking Mom - a 46-year old mom tries to keep up with her daughter's partying, and predictably fails miserably
Only the last one was not full of surprises and hugely eye-opening. I am anxiously awaiting the release of Season Two.
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Summary: Eye-Opening
Comment: Before purchasing this DVD set, I had never seen the show. However, I liked Super Size Me so I figured this would be more of the same. I believe that this show is a great alternative to 'regular' reality TV, because you are absolutely guaranteed to learn something that you didn't know before. The episodes are great and let people approach a subject with an open mind to form their own opinion of what's going on.
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Summary: Eye opening
Comment: This is a great set of things we though we knew but this put it all in prospective. I'll will get the rest of the seasons.
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Summary: Best Reality Series on Television
Comment: This is Morgan Spurlock at his finest. 30 Days is compelling, thought-provoking, informative, and entertaining all at once. It is easily the best reality show currently on television and possibly the best show on television right now. The fact that it has been passed over for one Emmy award after another is nothing less than a travesty, especially when you consider the shows that actually win (30 Rock? Boston Legal?!)
I do not give five-star reviews often, but I am emphatic in my opinion that this show deserves it. Every episode tackles its subject matter intelligently and honestly, with Spurlock himself participating in one of his social experiments every season. After Super Size Me, he took a chance on a reality show, a genre that had long worn out its value and welcome, and the results vastly exceed expectations (it certainly helps that it is on FX, a network with some courage).
Supplanting a person from his or her lifestyle to one beyond his or her comfort zone for 30 days may seem gimmicky, but it's actually a perfect strategy. It gives the individual enough exposure to effect a real change in his or her perspectives if he or she ever will, and it's worked every time so far, which is telling of us and our society. Spurlock isn't content to merely shine light on the drama provoked by the scenario - he's after larger issues, and he uncovers his findings with tenacious precision, always commenting on the larger picture with astuteness, whether dealing with religious dichotomies, the sufficiency of minimum wage, binge drinking, or any other number of issues that affect us all.
30 Days is a show that deserves to be seen. Each episode shows the progress we can make if we just open ourselves up to other people's lives and ideas. It comments on the very nature of our identities as human beings, flawed but capable of gradual change. It's an important show that everyone can benefit from viewing.
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