Morgan Spurlock
Director
Inside Man (2013)
Season 2
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock provides an insider's view of diverse social and economic issues facing Americans today.
Released June 23, 2013
Episode 60 min
14+
Genres: Documentary, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: imdb.digging
Network: CNN
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Celebrity
Morgan explores America's obsession with celebrities; from high-speed chases to hunting down the great photo.
April 13, 2014, midnight
S2E2 - Futurism
Spurlock enters the brave new world of extreme life extension, embarking on a life-prolonging regimen and trying everything from genome hacking, to creating an avatar and uploading his consciousness in preparation for the “Technological Singularity.” Spurlock’s quest to live forever includes visits with radical futurist Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and Cambrian Genomics in San Francisco.
April 20, 2014, midnight
S2E3 - Pets in America
From toy dogs in fancy purses to puppy mills to shelter animals, Spurlock takes a humorous and poignant look at America’s cultural obsession with pets. To explore how less fortunate “would-be” pets live, Spurlock gets down and dirty as an animal shelter worker for the Animal Rescue League of Berks County (Reading, PA.), where each day can mean adoption or euthanasia.
April 27, 2014, midnight
S2E4 - Cyber Spying/Big Data
How easy is it to track someone online? How much info does the government have on each of us? And how much info do corporations keep on us – tracking where we live, what we buy, and for whom we buy it? To uncover the scary truth about big data collecting, Spurlock journeys out to find out just how much information is kept on him.
May 4, 2014, midnight
S2E5 - The Book of Morgan
Spurlock travels to Nashville, TN – the buckle of the Bible Belt – to become a guest preacher at an atheist church, a controversial and growing movement in the US. Along the way, he visits evangelical mega-churches, Baptist gospel churches, mosques, Mormon gatherings, and more to try and figure out exactly why people need religion in their lives, why it creates so much conflict in this world, and what his own message is for his Sunday sermon.
May 11, 2014, midnight
S2E6 - UFO’s
With an open mind, Spurlock steeps himself in the history, theories, and photographic ‘evidence’ of UFO sightings, embedding himself at several MUFONs (Mutual UFO Network) and communing with watchers, conspiracy theorists and other interested parties to make his own determination as to whether or not we are truly alone in the universe.
May 18, 2014, midnight
S2E7 - Income Inequality
Spurlock travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to see how achievable the American Dream really is in one of the most economically unequal places in the United States. From working at a food pantry to racing Ferraris with the city's elite, he'll explore what wealth looks like, what's changed, and where we're headed.
June 1, 2014, midnight
S2E8 - College Athletes
Spurlock imbeds in some of the top college sports programs in the U.S. to see first hand what it takes to be a top-level college athlete, what kind of education these kids are actually getting, and what life is like under the watchful eye of the NCAA. Schools are making millions off the backs of these kids – should the athletes themselves be able to share in the profits?
June 8, 2014, midnight
Network: CNN
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1800 min.
Released: June 23, 2013
Last Air Date: Aug. 12, 2016, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 14+
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