I love Curtis, (and am enjoying this series) but I feel he's somewhat overreached his grasp with this one, which is a shame. His conclusions are totally and 100% sound, but the amount of ground he tries to cover in just three hours means that some of the material appears to be a bit unconvincing (as much for lack of clarity as anything else)... the mental illness stuff that he has attempted to weave in doesn't mesh that well (perhaps it could do, but that might take another few hours of explanation and more careful analysis of the evidence). He's obviously on firmer ground with politics, but still the tiresome "the numbers are evil" schtick is well, a bit tiresome- I'm no expert on Game theory but I have a funny feeling his presentation of it is completely one dimensional... Also his attack on the treatment of humans as if they were computers (a point he returns to via economics, DSM psychiatry and Dawkinsian Genetics) seems to lack a key thread- an analysis of the power in the popular imagination of the computer as metaphor... basically a lot of his conclusions could have been reached by simpler means and therefore afforded better explanation, without necessarily sacrificing the grandiose sweep which characterises his films (ie- the century of the self certainly felt a lot more measured than this). Its still good to see this kind of ambition (and unabashedly polemical political voice) in a television documentary, the music and visuals are superb as ever, and I'm hoping he will pull it together a bit more in the third part... I kind of wish the BBC had allowed him twice as many episodes really...