The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Genre Documentary
Distributed by BBC
Produced by Louis Theroux
Written by Louis Theroux
Starring Louis Theroux
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Release date 9 August 2009 (2009-08-09)
Running time 60 minutes
Preceded by A Place for Paedophiles
Followed by America's Medicated Kids

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth is a British documentary by Louis Theroux.[1] It was televised on 9 August 2009. Theroux filmed his documentary in Fresno, California which has one of the highest number of crystal meth users in the United States.[2]

Reception

The documentary had mixed reviews.[3] The Times said "Theroux risks becoming the Alan Whicker de nos jours, a tourist with a typewriter, peering into these other lives but rarely getting dirty himself."[4]

The Dominion Post criticised Louis Theroux interviewing method "...an increasingly grim-faced Theroux admitted he was at risk of becoming desensitised to the moving tide of human misery where the stories were a horrid template to be fitted over each twisted face."[5]

The Guardian called the work "an extraordinary film, a sad portrait of a very different California" [1]

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