Recommended

The new season of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days on FX has kicked off spectacularly with a look at the lives of Indian workers who are the beneficiaries of American corporate outsourcing. Highly recommended.

Update: Episode on atheist temporarily living with fundamentalist Christian family was very frustrating to me. How can any individual represent what is not actually a coherent community of people? There is nothing that unifies atheists other than a conscious rejection of "God". I felt bad for all involved in this episode.

Episode on Muslims in America was pretty interesting, though again frustrating. The Christian guy had a very hard time, believing he was somehow going against his belief in Jesus and "God" to participate in Muslim prayer of any kind. And yet he had agreed to participate in exactly that. It reminded me of a Zen lesson on overfull cups of beliefs. The guy's difficulties seemed largely rooted in a placement mismatch with his religious teachers/guides. He eventually ended up with someone who could help him understand a bit better, which redeemed the episode for me.

Final episode finds Spurlock himself returning to the activities of his show as he puts himself in jail. I'm certainly biased, well down the road of beliefs/lessons he presents about the prison industrial complex and lack of rehabilitation in so-called penitentiaries, yet I still think the episode would be of interest to anyone out there with a pulse. Good stuff. Even the questionable episodes force you to think about the world.