Extreme Engagement

6.0

2019•40m

An engaged couple travels the world for a year to explore marriage customs in diverse cultures. Will the journey bring them closer or tear them apart?

Seasons

8 Episodes • Premiered 2019

Filmmaker Tim Noonan helmed the extreme adventure docuseries “Boy to Man.”

1. Like a Woman Possessed

Visiting a Cameroon tribe claiming to have the world's happiest marriages, PJ undergoes a ritual possession. Tim builds a love shack and gets sick.

2. Love & Other Bruises

Indonesia’s Sasak people show Tim how to fight like a love warrior. PJ publicly praises his machismo but privately rolls her eyes.

3. Ruffling Feathers

In a Papua New Guinea village, Tim and PJ undergo fertility rituals that include sacrificing a pig and locating an egg that could reveal their future.

4. Cold Feet

The couple treks through Mongolia with nomadic herders. Worn down by the grueling climate, PJ wonders if her engagement to Tim is a mistake.

5. Hotbed

Jealousy flares when PJ teams up with a handsome member of Nigeria's polygamous Wodaabe tribe, prompting Tim to face some hard truths about himself.

6. The Crying Game

In China, a negative horoscope reading drives Tim and PJ to prove their commitment. Pivotally, PJ must deal with her painful past and learn to cry.

7. Blurred Vision

Tim and PJ bicker while visiting a spiritual community in Brazil. To reconnect, they go down the Amazon to a sacred tree and Tim takes a hallucinogen.