Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock adapts his Super Size Me experiment to the small screen in the fascinating documentary series 30 Days.
Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock conducts numerous social experiments where people live life in another person's shoes for 30 Days.
It's fascinating and live altering for the guinea pigs involved who've agreed to be as open and honest with their opinions as possible.
In episode 1 called "Minimum Wage" - Morgan and his fiancee Alex attempt to live on minimum wage ($5.15 USD/hour) for an entire month. They pack up their comfortable lifestyles and head to the Midwest where they literally start from scratch renting an apartment to finding hard labourious work. Things go from bad to worse when they both end up in the hospital and have to foot the bill on their current income.
Episode 2 - "Anti-Aging" - a once slim trim swimmer, now husband and father undergoes a cocktail of supplements and injections to reverse the aging process.
Episode 3 - "Muslims and America" - counters the stereotypes and prejudices associated with being Muslim when a devout Christian is sent to the most heavily populated Muslim community in America and has to live, eat and pray with his Muslim host family.
Episode 4 - "Straight Man in a Gay World" sends a homophobic young man to live in a San Francisco's Castro District.
Episode 5 - "Off The Grid" sends two New Yorkers to an eco-village where they must live 'off the grid' (without electricity including fossil fuel) for 30 days.
Episode 6 - "Binge Drinking Mom" goes on a diet of cocktail, beers, wines and coolers in an attempt to show her 19 year old college binge drinking daughter what effects it will have on her.
Special features include Director and Participants Commentary on selected episodes as well as extended Video Diary Cams for all episodes.
