Just three weeks ago the BBC announced that Louis was returning to our screens with not one but three documentaries.
The journalist will be dissecting trends in the USA particularly in relation to modern life. The documentary series, entitled Altered States, includes conversations about lucrative adoptions, polyamorous relationships, and euthanasia.
A teaser trailer for his first episode has just been released and it's called Love Without Limits, the first of his documentary episodes set to be released on November 4.
The episode will explore the pleasures and jealousies surrounding the practice of polygamy, having multiple romantic partners. Theroux will experience polygamy parties and live with a polygamous couple to better understand our relationship with monogamy. Theroux had this to say about the new documentary series:
I have always been interested in how people conduct the most intimate aspects of their lives.
For this series we looked at the new ways Americans are approaching some of humanity’s oldest dilemmas: pregnant mums who feel unequipped to keep their babies and so pick new parents for them, the world of polyamory, and people with debilitating conditions who opt to hasten their own deaths.
All of these stories have something a touch utopian about them, involving a kind of idealism and forward thinking that brings new opportunities but also new risks.
I have been given extraordinary levels of access to courageous people and families across the United States, many of them enduring unbelievable levels of stress and anguish, and it was a privilege to be allowed into their lives in this most personal way.
Catch the full trailer for Love Without Limits below:
