10 Best Christmas TV Episodes You Can Watch On Netflix

'Weird Christmas' is the only festive documentary episode on the list, and the only Louis Theroux Christmas documentary. Broadcast on 23 December 1998, this episode saw Theroux invite some of the peculiar previous interviewees from his Weird Weekends series to spend Christmas with him in New York.

Theroux himself recently admitted in his autobiography that he is least fond of this episode describing it as "haunted not so much by the ghost of Christmas past as by shades of Jerry Springer past." He lamented that the episode had lazily stumbled across the Big Brother format (before the series even existed) as he put clashing personalities inside a house and let the cameras roll as they fought.

However, for this very reason it is also one of the most interesting episodes as Theroux is at his most awkward and nervous as he attempts to keep the peace between his guests including an old evangelical Christian preacher and a young pornstar. Watching a young, inexperienced Theroux try to create a sense of comradery among his conflicting guests by using Christmas as an agent to unite everyone is oddly charming and quintessential Theroux. Perhaps it was ahead of its time when it debuted in the late '90s to a lukewarm response. In the British documentary maker's own words: "it's more of an avant-garde piece."