Independent Lens · SEASON 18
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Episode 3 · 2017-01-02

- Documentary
Episode overview
Michelle, a precocious 20-year-old woman living in rural Maine with her mother, is legally blind and on the autism spectrum. With big dreams and varied passions, she explores love and empowerment outside the limits of “normal” through a provocative sex-positive community. Best and Most Beautiful Things tells Michelle’s joyful story of self-discovery as a celebration of outcasts everywhere.
60 minutes
Season 18 episodes
1. Best of Enemies2016-10-02
2. Meet the Patels2016-12-26
3. Best and Most Beautiful Things2017-01-02
4. Containment2017-01-09
5. What Was Ours2017-01-16
6. The Witness2017-01-23
7. Birth of a Movement2017-02-06
8. Accidental Courtesy2017-02-13
9. TOWER2017-02-14
10. The Bad Kids2017-03-20
11. Ovarian Psycos2017-03-27
12. Newtown2017-04-03
13. SEED: The Untold Story2017-04-17
14. The Last Laugh2017-04-24
15. National Bird2017-05-01
16. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes2017-05-08
17. Forever Pure2017-05-15
18. They Call Us Monsters2017-05-22
19. Farmer/Veteran2017-05-29
20. Real Boy2017-06-19