Louis Theroux

Because it projects a much happier version of...

onto the past, right?

There's people get along, there's no real racial prejudice in it.

There was a story in the New York Times from 2024, basically kind of giving the alternate view

saying it's a magical multiracial past.

Have you thought about that at all?

You wouldn't want that to give a false sense of actually how the past was.

There's this alternate version where actually increasing, especially post-2020, like, oh, we need more accountability for colonialism.

And we need stately homes to have sections where they're like, actually, it was the slave trade that made this possible.

So I guess there's a tension there.

I'm wondering, is that something you've spent any time thinking about?

About the show?

Yeah, right.

Like the pros and cons of that kind of fantasy.

The big one being love.

Loving is the high water mark of living, as D.H.

Lawrence said.

It's just luxuriating in the intensity of that experience of young love and lust.

Would you agree?

I think I would agree.