Since we cannot get enough of VICE here at HBOWatch we thought we should just punch you in the face with some more of it. There is actually additional footage to each episode that has aired so far; it is packaged as VICE – Extended. Instead of a super post of video clips at the end of the season we are going to dole a few out at a time over a total of three posts. Here is a look at the extra footage for the first four (4) episodes. Episode One has one from Assassination Nation with Ryan Duffy. In the Philippines Ryan shows us more of the Backyard Gunshop. They make it look so easy just...

Overview: First destination this episode is to TOBACCOLAND.  The dangers of smoking are no secret in the U.S., but in Indonesia, the tobacco industry is virtually unregulated. What is the result? Over two-thirds of all men are smokers, and it is commonplace for children as young as six to take up the habit. Tobacco is a $100 billion industry here, with TV and print ads everywhere. Investigating this phenomenon in Malang, VICE visits a clinic that promises cures to a plethora of modern ailments through tobacco and smoking – with our intrepid correspondent getting the full smoke-therapy...

Overview: Episode 06 offers two segments. ViceonHBO.com gives us the following description for each. CHINA’S GHOST TOWNS – Fifteen years ago, China changed its policy so people could buy their own homes. Real-estate investments boomed, and new cities began popping up each year, many inspired by western design and mimicking iconic locales like Paris and lower Manhattan. The problem is: people don’t live here. One ghost city in Inner Mongolia, built to house one million people, is now an empty shell of unoccupied skyscrapers and abandoned construction sites. VICE checks out this and...

Overview:  The fifth episode of VICE on HBO gives us three segments; one told by each of our correspondents. The first segment is MORMON LOST BOYS. In this piece we find that in today’s Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) Church, many young men have been thrown out of their homes because of edicts allowing polygamist church elders to monopolize all the eligible young girls. These “lost boys,” few of whom have even an 8th-grade education, must adjust to a drastically different America than the one they grew up in. We travel to Utah to meet some of these young men and listen to...

  Overview: “Love & Rockets” is the title of episode 4. The first segment is the “Love” part of the equation with CHINESE COCKBLOCK. In this piece viewers will understand the implications of China’s One Child Rule. VICE.com puts it this way: What happens when 50 million men can’t get laid? China’s “one child” policy, coupled with a longstanding cultural predilection for male babies, has created a market where marrying-age men outnumber women by the millions. The fabric of this social engineering has thrown old-fashioned courtship out the window and created a...

Overview: Collectively, episode 3 is entitled “Guns & Ammo.” The first segment under this theme is called simply GUN SCHOOL. In the piece we go to the New Life Baptist Church & Academy in Albuquerque, NM, where Pastor Larry Allen preaches guns and teaches guns. The Academy is a Christian School for pre-K through High School and part of the curriculum teaches how to be armed for the evil that is at hand. That means not just spiritually but physically. It means taking charge of your life and taking out the violent threat before it takes you out.  A number of faculty and...

VICE was originally given eight (8) installments in its freshman season on HBO, however that has since been bumped up to ten (10). The additional episod es may be due to the healthy numbers for the show but I’m not quite sure if that is the case. It could be that they wanted to generate a bit of publicity for the season finale since the   closing story is a piece that has already made the news. HBO has stated that viewership for the second edition of VICE, which debuted Friday, 04.12, improved 78% over its premiere, attracting 931,000 viewers and based on preliminary data, the series has...

Overview: Escape From North Korea: Thousands of North Koreans cross the border into China illegally every year. Living in perpetual fear of being discovered, with all odds against them, defectors still do everything they can to leave. If arrested in communist Laos, they may be sent back to North Korea to face prison camp or worse. The risks of escaping the North and heading to the South are so great that fewer than 25,000 North Koreans have ever made the journey successfully. VICE joins a South Korean pastor who has developed a modern-day underground railroad to move defectors from China to...

Last week HBO debuted its newest documentary series, VICE which covers hot button issues in exotic and often dangerous locales around the world.  One of the founders of VICE publishing, Shane Smith made his way to the Colbert show last night to discuss his new venture with HBO and to debate the finer points of modern journalism with the mock-news host: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   The show has been receiving generally positive reviews and we’re only 30 minutes in to the inaugural season of VICE....

Are you one of the millions of fans out there who wanted to watch HBO’s new series: VICE but don’t have an HBO subscription?  Well today is your day because the Home Box Office has released the series premiere on both YouTube and the official HBO site: HBO.com. Here at HBOWatch, we’re very intrigued by VICE and our first review left us feeling as though our face had been punched in (in a good way).  If you haven’t already, give this episode a watch and expect more of the same from episodes to come: Ep. 1: Full Episode If that’s not working for you try the...