Head for the Hills

Each weekend Louis investigates a single sub-culture or way of life indepth, loosely using the peg that he´s interested in adopting the lifestyle in question. Though not explicitly millennial in theme, it does touch on the strangeness of 90s America. It´s about a search for identity, for a group to subscribe to, and about the funny ways people live. Intriguing, entertaining, surprising and down rich strange, “Louis Theroux´s Weird Weekends” shows Louis spending time with the kind of groups most of us avoid at all costs. “Head for the Hills”: Peaceful as they look, the hills of Idaho and Montana in the northwest of the U.S. are home to a strange sub-culture of right-wing patriots and survivalists, and one that Louis Theroux plans to infiltrate. Louis meets full-time patriot activist Steve Quayle, who prepares to defend himself from a group called the New World Order and their “evil secret plan to enslave the world.” He also takes a visit to “almost heaven” – a mountaintop commune for patriots run by Colonel Bo Gritz and inhabited by “radical noodle” Mike Cain, whose pride and joy is his gun rack. Next, Louis is taken on a snow-bound trek by recluse and ageing hippy Mike Oehler to his subterranean home of the last 28 years. And to get to the racist side of things, Louis visits the Rev. Butler´s Aryan Nation compound.