30 Days - Season 1 (2005)

Great Insight into other people's life.

Well Morgan Spurlock does it again in this wonderful series. It takes you into all different parts of life and how other people live. All I can say is this DVD will change the way you live your life I guarantee it. It made me think twice about what I do, what I say and how I live. I believe that I will always remember this series and what it did in my life and I am a better person because of this series. November 12, 2008

30 days

Gave this as a Christmas present. Recipient was very happy. Received expediently and in great shape. October 24, 2008

30 Days to Change how you Think

Morgan Spurlock has done it again with this First Season (and Season Two) of 30 DAYS. These shows put the real in "realality" TV. It opens the eyes of people who are set in their own beliefs and then is able to open their minds to a new way of thinking. Spurlock should be the one that everyone ought to be watching . . . It can make you a better person by opening up your eyes while learning about other people's lives through "walking in their shows" method. A MUST SEE! For Everyone. October 4, 2008

Using The Medium

Television -- The Box That Dares Not Speak Its Name -- has such incredible power. It could be educational, bringing understanding and familiarity to people who otherwise would mistrust and disrespect each other from lack of contact. It could even out some of the disparities in our education system. It could teach critical thinking by exposing the fallacies of blind acceptance of unproven allegations.

Instead, it does... not.

Except when Morgan Spurlock's on the screen. His "Super Size Me" was a landmark documentary, exposing a corporate giant's avoidance of the truth about its products. And his series "30 Days" extends this same clear-eyed and intelligent investigation to a different subject each episode. Subtitled "Try Someone Else's Life On For Size," this is exactly what he does, and the results are some of the best TV ever broadcast.

This first season includes the following episodes:
* Minimum Wage - shows how the working poor fall through the cracks and in some ways are worse off than the unemployed
* Anti-Aging - how the pseudo-medical supplement industry preys on vanity with no regard for the health risks involved
* Muslims and America - what it's like to be a Muslim in post-9/11 America
* Straight Man in a Gay World - preconceptions dissolve (on both sides!) when worlds collide
* Off The Grid - how to live a totally green existence, and what this would mean to our accustomed standard of living
* Binge Drinking Mom - a 46-year old mom tries to keep up with her daughter's partying, and predictably fails miserably

Only the last one was not full of surprises and hugely eye-opening. I am anxiously awaiting the release of Season Two. August 3, 2008

Eye-Opening

Before purchasing this DVD set, I had never seen the show. However, I liked Super Size Me so I figured this would be more of the same. I believe that this show is a great alternative to 'regular' reality TV, because you are absolutely guaranteed to learn something that you didn't know before. The episodes are great and let people approach a subject with an open mind to form their own opinion of what's going on. August 2, 2008

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