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American Dream
BBC Two, 8.25pm
This impressionistic documentary looks at how religion is tangled up with the myth of the American Dream. Among the people we see in this third episode of three are Pentecostal preachers who claim to heal the sick and ultra-conservative Christians who believe their children are being 'recruited' by homosexuals. The programme struggles to link the case studies with a coherent thread so what you end up with is a woozy and slightly sinister impression of America where dreams too often take...