Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family (2019)

Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family: Directed by Geoffrey O’Connor. With Louis Theroux, Fred Phelps, Bethany Hockenbarger, Chris Jakes. Louis Theroux returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.

“A part of me was left wondering what the point in this third documentary was because it was somewhat similar to the second (u0026quot;Americau0026#39;s Most Hated Family in Crisisu0026quot;). The main difference is Fred Phelps had died and he wanted to understand why he was excommunicated – nothing that wasnu0026#39;t known to the public already was revealed by current WBC members or those that left WBC. Since his death, the church had already started to moderate, but the reasons as to why was never explained by the WBC members.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was disappointing that there was less of Shirley Phelps-Roper and none of Margie Phelps, both of whom are very charismatic, intelligent and interesting women to listen to. There was more of Steve Drain, unfortunately, and heu0026#39;s one of the more dull and annoying members of WBC that has assumed a leadership position. Wouldu0026#39;ve been nice to see the young men of the church and how theyu0026#39;re doing, especially the young Phelps-Roper guys, who were kids in the first two documentaries.”