TV Review: 30 Days
Welcome to Tony Island Blog! 30 Days was a short-lived series by Morgan Spurlock, the producer of Super Size Me , which was reviewed here . There were 3 seasons comprised of 6 episodes per season. Each episode took a willing participant and immersed him/her into an alien environment to explore a culture/lifestyle that was the opposite of what he/she knows to see if how it would affect him/her. Basically, it took the old saying "To walk in someone else's shoes" to the test. I've only been through the first season, but I've found the series interesting and enlightening - more so by watching the participants reactions to their new environments than by my own reaction to the events depicted. The topics covered in the first season were living on minimum wage, a Christian living among Muslims, anti-aging, straight man in a gay world, off the grid and binge drinking Mom. Two of the episodes that popped out at me were "Off the Grid" in which two New Yor...