Review of This Is Life with Lisa Ling

THIS is life? Lisa Ling is supposedly exploring "dangerous subcultures and alternate communities" in this series, as per the Netflix description, but it really seems she's chiefly obsessed with the world's oldest profession in all its forms, promoting it and legitimizing it. Girls, you can make more money than you ever dreamed of! On websites like Seeking Arrangements, in boom towns like Williston North Dakota, and you don't even have to touch those guys, you can just strip and gyrate on web cam! Ling does an admirable job of standing back and looking slightly disturbed at the "freaks" she tracks down to exploit, but the clear takeaway from each of these episodes is that selling your body is a lucrative business and you ain't gonna make more with that degree, so go for it! Highly recommended.