"Louis Theroux: Forbidden America" Rap's New Frontline (TV Episode 2022) Poster

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Depressing
Ghillie_Forrest23 February 2022
I thought if I heard one more iteration of "You know what I'm saying" from some semi-literate rapper I would put my fist through the screen.

Their empty lives, driven by the desire for fame and money and what they seem to think of as power, would be laughable if they were not so violent. But their thinking does not seem to embrace any concept of what death actually means.

Even more than the appalling legacy of Trump captured in Episode 1, this episode paints a very depressing picture of a growing segment of America.
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5/10
Not Louis' Best
WW12411 March 2022
I'm an avid enjoyer of Louis' docs, but I've found the first two episodes of Forbidden America to below his usual standard. Broadly, I felt this episode didn't really have anything to say - it focused on a topic that has been done time and time again: the relationship between rap and violence. Though this didn't necessarily leave the subject matter entirely doomed from the start, it didn't feel as if anything insightful was said about the topic.

I had high hopes for another Theroux documentary on rap, but this one fell relatively flat.
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