DATW: “Thirty Days”

Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker behind “Super Size Me” and “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” also has a television series called “Thirty Days.” The premise is similar to that of this films: Spurlock fabricates reality, and then documents it. In “Thirty Days” he convinces people of vastly different backgrounds – a minuteman and an immigrant family, an atheist and a Christian family, a homophobe and a homosexual – to shack up together for thirty days and see what happens. Usually, Spurlock plays guinea pig in his own social experiments, but sometimes he finds volunteers. You can watch many of the episodes online. Here’s a taste:

Tags: Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me, Thirty Days

Jessica Weisberg is a writer currently living in Chicago. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, n+1, AlterNet, The American Prospect, and newyorker.com, among other publications. She worked as a fa ...read more