I became obsessed with a show called 30 Days that I found on Netflix this weekend. I like to think Netflix required me to watch many episodes of 30 Days by suggesting it to me for the past few years. But I’m glad that they did. I remembered Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker who ate McDonald’s for 30 days until he became heavy and lethargic, from the movie Super Size Me that came out in 2004.

Turns out that Spurlock got his own show with the same premise on FX in 2005. The show lasted for three seasons, until 2008, and chronicles a little bit of a different premise than Super Size Me. In this show, Spurlock alleges that coming to understand the lifestyle of someone with whom you disagree or are ignorant about will make you change your own perspective. So that’s exactly what people on this show do—they change their own lifestyle or live with someone who lives the type of life with which they disagree. The result is totally addictive and, for the most part, pretty affirming. Here are some of the best gay-themed episodes:

Straight Guy in a Gay Man’s World. In this episode, a conservative guy named Ryan from the Midwest goes to live with a gay man, Ed, in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, arguably the gayest place on earth. The young dude just graduated from college and he has some pretty stereotypical views about homosexuality, including his belief that gays go against the Bible. It’s a pretty great episode, though, because Ryan is pretty willing to have his mind opened. Ed is extremely laid-back and he’s not Ryan’s version of a stereotypical gay man, despite his painting of a naked guy on his bathroom wall. He introduces Ryan to his circle of down-to-earth and ahtletic gay men and Ryan surprises himself with his ease in the circle. He and Ed become friends throughout the month and Ed even cries when his roommate—and friend—leaves to return to Michigan. In the end, Ryan isn’t sure that homosexuality isn't a sin, but his views seem to be on the mend—he’s seen that his stereotyping is flawed and his views are too influenced by his upbringiing.

Gay Parenting. This episode is so obviously unfair; it’s sort of ridiculous. On one side of the issue is a Mormon woman named Kati from California who is adopted herself and has two adopted sons. She doesn’t believe in gay parenting or adoption from a moral perspective, a logic which she defends by saying things like she “prayed” to learn her views and that she “knows” her views are correct. She goes to live with an extremely wonderful gay couple, a college professor named Tom and his high school math teacher partner, Dennis. They are raising four adopted boys on a chicken-and-goat farm right outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kati seems completely outwitted by these two men and their well-educated gay friends—she gets flustered easily and has few facts to back up her point-of-view. Her stubborn viewpoint seems particularly ridiculous when she meets with two adults who aged out of the foster care system without being adopted—she says she feels sorry for children like them, but she still thinks they should be adopted by a man and a woman. You want to slap her into seeing the obviousness that there aren’t heterosexual families willing to adopt these kids; there aren’t even enough willing gay families. In the end, her views seem to be more cemented, but also more incongruous than before she came—she recognizes that Dennis and Tom are excellent parents, but she still doesn’t believe in gay parenting. Nutty and frustrating.