This American Life: Season 1 (2007)

Television verison of the public radio series hosted by Ira Glass. The show basically consists of short documentary segments that wouldn't be interesting as feature length documentaries, but work because there short. Likable series, I watched this while in the hospital, I'd seen a couple of the episodes before but it was good to see the whole thing. Notable subject matters include a man who has his late beloved pet bull cloned, only to find him kind of bad tempered, A Mormon who hires homeless people to play apostles in pictures he takes re-creating the life of Christ, and a collage student who tries to make a documentary on how his former pop star step father ruined his mothers life, only to find that she was largely responsible for her failings. Recommended.