Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (Season 2)

[Links to the other two series are at the bottom. All the videos are XviD Avi's.

It is often the most challenging situations we face in life that teach us the most about who we are as individuals and how we tick. ~ Dunamis]

About the Show

Remember Morgan Spurlock, of Super Size Me fame? He's back, and the star of wildly popular television series that TV Guide has called "equal parts funny and sobering and a million times smarter than most other shows on TV." He and his fiancée Alex leave their fabulous New York lifestyles behind for the heart of the Midwest: Columbus, Ohio. They work at multiple minimum wage jobs for 30 days earning $5.15 an hour. They get to experience first-hand the struggles that families earning minimum wage face as Morgan's niece and nephew come to live with them.

From experiencing the life of a former star athlete to living off the grid to dealing with alcoholism, 30 Days demonstrates all the ups and downs that people of different lifestyles face across the country.

Episode 1: Immigration
Illegal immigration is the topic as a Minuteman spends a month with an East Los Angeles family of seven in their one-bedroom apartment. The irony -not lost on his hosts - is that illegal-immigration foe Frank George is an immigrant himself, from Cuba. "If I could deport the [family] tomorrow I would have to," he says. Then he gets to know them.

Episode 2: Outsourcing
Outsourcing is explored as a New York computer programmer follows his former job to Bangalore, "the Silicon Valley of India." Chris Jobin, 37, finds he can't get it back (he'd need "Indian experience," he's told), but he easily finds work - prestigious work - at a call center. But first Chris must take "American training." It's "raining jobs," Chris marvels, but the training is part of the price India must pay. "This culture," he says, "is bending and reshaping itself to match ours."

Episode 3: Atheist/Christian
A freethinking mother of four finds religion (for a month, at least) in the home of an evangelical Christian family. "It's not like you have an 'unborn-again' experience," says Brenda as she tells her host family, the Shores, how she became a nonbeliever. During their month together, Brenda attends their Frisco, Texas, nondenominational mega-church as well as Bible-study sessions.

Episode 4: New Age
A skeptical 37-year-old New Jersey salesman embarks on a regimen of New Age therapies to relieve stresses in his life that he fears are threatening his relationships with his daughter and girlfriend. He learns yoga, receives acupuncture and Reiki therapy, and attends a tribal-dancing class, a spring-equinox ritual and a Tantric-intimacy workshop. Later, he contemplates walking over a bed of hot coals.

Episode 5: Pro Choice/Pro Life
An Atlanta abortion-clinic employee spends 30 days at a Long Beach maternity home operated by a pro-life minister. Jennifer, 29, must attend anti abortion demonstrations that the home, His Nesting Place, takes part in, but she's far happier spending time with the pregnant women and new moms who live there. Jennifer's visit "has challenged us," says Pastor Al Howard, the director of His Nesting Place.

Episode 6: Jail
Morgan Spurlock does a stretch in the Henrico County, Virginia, living with actual inmates. Spurlock is immediately overwhelmed by his lack of freedom and privacy. Then he gets more privacy than he wants when he's put in a 7x10 solitary-confinment cell for 72 hours and isn't even allowed books.

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Wikipedia:
Season one premiered on June 15, 2005, and its respective DVD set was released July 11, 2006. The second season premiered on July 26, 2006. Season 3 of 30 Days premiered on June 3, 2008. FX said on November 6 that it would not be renewing the series for a fourth season, effectively canceling the show. The show has recently been picked up for re-air by Planet Green, though no new episodes have been ordered.

In the United Kingdom, the program is broadcast on More4 and Channel 4. In Australia, the program is broadcast on Network Ten and Lifestyle Channel. It currently airs in Canada on Independent Film Channel and Canal Vie. It also airs on FX in Latin America. In Norway it airs on TV 2. In Sweden it airs on TV4 and Kanal 9.

Season 1:
No. Title Original airdate
101 Minimum Wage June 15, 2005
102 Anti-Aging June 22, 2005
103 Muslims and America June 29, 2005
104 Straight Man in a Gay World July 6, 2005
105 Off the Grid July 13, 2005
106 Binge Drinking Mom July 20, 2005

Season 2:
No. Title Original Airdate
201 Immigration July 26, 2006
202 Outsourcing August 2, 2006
203 Atheist vs. Christian August 9, 2006
204 New Age August 16, 2006
205 Pro-life, Pro-choice August 23, 2006
206 Jail August 30, 2006

Season 3:
No. Title Original Airdate
301 Working in a Coal Mine June 3, 2008
302 Living in a Wheelchair June 10, 2008
303 Animal Rights June 17, 2008
304 Same Sex Parenting June 24, 2008
305 Gun Nation July 1, 2008
306 Life on an Indian Reservation July 8, 2008

Created by - Morgan Spurlock
Starring - Morgan Spurlock
Narrated by - Morgan Spurlock
Executive producers - John Landgraf
- Ben Silverman
- H.T. Owens
- Morgan Spurlock
- R. J. Cutler
Producer - Sebastian Doggart
Original channel - FX Networks
Original run - June 15, 2005 (2005-06-15) – July 8, 2008 (2008-07-08)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_%28TV_series%29

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Website - http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/30days/
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437696/
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