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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    VICE Season 2 Episode 4 - El Darién & Out of Sight
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    #1 - El Darién & Out of Sight

    S2:E4

    Migrants to the US face a grueling 60-mile hike along the Columbia-Panama border through one of the world's most dangerous jungles; The police-worn body camera has yet to fulfill its promise as a silver bullet against police brutality.

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  2. VICE Season 2 Episode 5 - Egypt's Silent War & Chain of Command
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    #2 - Egypt's Silent War & Chain of Command

    S2:E5

    US armed forces are trained and readied to face violence anywhere in the world, but today alarm is growing as enlisted personnel are falling victim to violence in a most unexpected place – on stateside military bases. Gianna Toboni meets with victims and insiders to explore stories of violence and impunity across the US military; Hind Hassan travels to Egypt to investigate systematic human rights abuses under a regime propped up by the US government, only to have an interview with a whistleblower brought to a forcible end.

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  3. VICE Season 2 Episode 6 - Hong Kong's Resistance & Prison Profiteers
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    #3 - Hong Kong's Resistance & Prison Profiteers

    S2:E6

    Laurel Chor reports from inside Hong Kong and meets the lawmakers and activists risking their lives to maintain the freedoms and civil liberties that Beijing is targeting; David Noriega investigates how the private prison industry pushes back against its critics to protect profits and what prison companies are doing to survive.

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  4. VICE Season 2 Episode 9 - Cancer Alley & Cuba's New Revolution
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    #4 - Cancer Alley & Cuba's New Revolution

    S2:E9

    VICE News' Alzo Slade travels to “Cancer Alley,” an 85-mile stretch in Louisiana where nearly 150 petrochemical plants and oil refineries line the Mississippi river, to speak with residents about how this industrial corridor has impacted their health; VICE News' Paola Ramos travels to Cuba to find out if the 62-year-old Communist dictatorship is losing a grip on its people.

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  5. VICE Season 2 Episode 10 - Land of the Free & Ethiopia’s War Within
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    #5 - Land of the Free & Ethiopia’s War Within

    S2:E10

    In the wake of the chaotic 2020 election, a region in northern Idaho called “American Redoubt” has burgeoned. Vegas Tenold reports on the trend of conservatives flocking there to escape liberal cities and put their stamp on local politics; Ethiopia is steeped in the second year of a civil war between Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy’s government and the TPLF. Julia Steers covers the conflict, delving into the allegations that former Nobel Peace Prize-winner Abiy is behind an ethnic cleansing operation.

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  6. VICE Season 2 Episode 11 - The Taliban’s Terror Problem & Citizen’s Arrest
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    #6 - The Taliban’s Terror Problem & Citizen’s Arrest

    S2:E11

    With the US out of Afghanistan, the Taliban are back in control. Despite the group's assurances that the war is over, ISIS-K have ramped up suicide bombings. Isobel Yeung questions the Taliban leadership about their ability to control a terrorist group; In February 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was chased and gunned down by three white men. The men argue that they had every right to pursue Arbery under Georgia’s citizens arrest law. Alexis Johnson investigates this Civil War era law and how it's still being used to justify racially-motivated vigilantism.

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  7. VICE Season 2 Episode 12 - State of Surveillance & Killing Dissent
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    #7 - State of Surveillance & Killing Dissent

    S2:E12

    Krishna Andavolu dives into how Big Tech’s investment in ‘big brother’ has allowed a surveillance state to slowly creep into American domestic policy; Ben C. Solomon investigates the poets of Myanmar and their push to rally protests against the military takeover even as they become targeted for death.

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  8. VICE Season 2 Episode 13 - Descent into Darkness & Merging With Machines
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    #8 - Descent into Darkness & Merging With Machines

    S2:E13

    Matthew Cassel travels to Lebanon to examine the anatomy of a failed state — from sectarian violence to economic collapse — and the impact of that failure on ordinary people and the region; Alice Hines meets cyborgs, neuroscientists and tech pioneers to explore the rapidly blurring line between biology and technology and what it all means for humanity 2.0.

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  9. VICE Season 2 Episode 14 - Take Down the CCP & World’s Coolest Dictator
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    #9 - Take Down the CCP & World’s Coolest Dictator

    S2:E14

    Guo Wengui was one of China's richest real estate moguls until he found himself facing corruption charges. He fled the mainland and later reappeared on American soil. Isobel Yeung meets Wengui and explores his web of disinformation spreading throughout the US; El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, owes his popularity to a decline in gang violence. But true to Bukele's persona, the achievement appears to be all public relations. David Noriega travels to El Salvador to find the truth behind the supposed achievements of its millennial president.

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  10. VICE Season 2 Episode 15 - But I Read It Online & No Safe Haven
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    #10 - But I Read It Online & No Safe Haven

    S2:E15

    Alzo Slade explores how medical disinformation has proliferated and been politicized under the guise of "alternative health" during the COVID-19 pandemic; Hind Hassan travels to the frontiers of Turkey and Europe, documenting a new migrant crisis and witnessing Greece’s abuse of international law as part of Europe’s response to the humanitarian crisis they helped create.

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  11. VICE Season 3 Episode 13 - The Replaced & The Missing
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    #11 - The Replaced & The Missing

    S3:E13

    Vegas Tenold takes us to the heart of far-right America to understand the enduring power of the Great Replacement Theory, and its lethality; Paola Ramos travels to Mexico to meet with mothers searching for their missing daughters in a country plagued by violent crime, human trafficking and government impunity.

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  12. VICE Season 3 Episode 15 - Uncensored & Battle for Africa
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    #12 - Uncensored & Battle for Africa

    S3:E15

    Hanako Montgomery explores why Japan hasn’t moved to ban sexual depictions of children in manga, despite international and domestic pressure to outlaw the comics; Suroosh Alvi visits an epic show of American force in Morocco, the frontline of a political battle in Guinea, and a retail supercenter in suburban Georgia to find out if US-Russian rivalry is linked to the unrest in Africa.

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  13. VICE Season 3 Episode 16 - Isis Jailbreak & Right Wing Stars
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    #13 - Isis Jailbreak & Right Wing Stars

    S3:E16

    Hind Hassan travels to Syria to find out how a resurgent Islamic State nearly managed to free thousands of its imprisoned militants from under the nose of the Syrian Democratic Forces – one of America’s closest allies in the fight against ISIS; Gianna Toboni meets young conservatives to see how their ideology is changing, and what it takes to become a right wing star in the U.S. today.

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  14. VICE Season 4 Episode 2 - Lynching For God & Backgrounded
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    #14 - Lynching For God & Backgrounded

    S4:E2

    Isobel Young meets with religious hardliners in Pakistan, where insulting The Prophet is constitutionally punishable by death, and reports on how they encourage the extrajudicial killing of blasphemers without mercy. Alzo Slade explores the systemic issues behind housing inequality, from landlord concerns over the safety of their renters to how an unregulated background check industry can complicate housing access for formerly incarcerated people.

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  15. VICE Season 3 Episode 10 - Smugglers of the Caribbean & Felony Murder
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Smugglers of the Caribbean & Felony Murder

    S3:E10

    Dexter Thomas Jr. travels to Alabama to learn about the Felony Murder rule and speaks to those most affected by it; As the surge of migrants at sea continues, Paola Ramos meets a smuggler trafficking people into the U.S. by boat.

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  16. VICE Season 3 Episode 11 - Killing for Success & Marcos Returns
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Killing for Success & Marcos Returns

    S3:E11

    Alzo Slade investigates the intersection of music and violence in Drill music, the most popular subgenre of rap today; Natashya Gutierrez travels to the Philippines to dig into the historic comeback of the Marcos family to the country’s highest office, 36 years after dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was ousted by the People Power revolution.

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  17. VICE Season 1 Episode 2 - India Burning & Russia's Fight Factory
    6.5/10(26 votes)

    #17 - India Burning & Russia's Fight Factory

    S1:E2

    With India's leaders ramping up Hindu nationalist rhetoric, correspondent Isobel Yeung investigates the growing fear that the nation's 200 million Muslims are being systematically targeted; correspondent Alzo Slade heads to Dagestan to explore how this tiny Russian republic with a turbulent history became a modern day fight factory, producing some of the world's top wrestlers and MMA fighters.

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  18. VICE Season 4 Episode 4 - Detransitioners & Draining the DRC
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Detransitioners & Draining the DRC

    S4:E4

    Alyza Enriques unpacks the role of detransitioners, or formerly trans-identifying people who have stopped medical treatment, in legislative efforts across the country to ban gender-affirming care, as well as those who oppose these polarizing bans. Alzo Slade travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which sits on top of more than half the world’s known cobalt supply, to investigate the country’s dangerous, yet highly profitable mining industry.

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  19. VICE Season 2 Episode 2 - Nigerian Uprising & The Brink
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Nigerian Uprising & The Brink

    S2:E2

    Alzo Slade meets the young Nigerians at the center of #EndSARS, and those involved in the deadly crackdown against them; Seb Walker sits with Trump's Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller to discuss his controversial days in office.

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  20. VICE Season 3 Episode 14 - False Positive & Taiwan Under Threat
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - False Positive & Taiwan Under Threat

    S3:E14

    Alice Hines investigates how inaccurate drug tests could be determining hundreds of thousands of court cases and upending the lives of people around the country; Melissa Chan travels to Taiwan to find out how residents on the island are preparing against mounting threats of an invasion by China.

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  21. VICE Season 4 Episode 6 - Catfished by Captives & The Disappeared
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Catfished by Captives & The Disappeared

    S4:E6

    Natashya Gutierrez travels to Southeast Asia to explore a dark new form of online scamming, known as “pig butchering”, that is involuntarily perpetuated by victims of human trafficking forced to steal for the Chinese mafia who run these manipulative scams. David Noriega investigates the deaths and disappearances of Moroccan migrants as they attempt to cross the Spanish border at Melilla and examines how outsourced European immigration policies may ultimately be responsible for these tragedies.

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  22. VICE Season 2 Episode 8 - Shadow War & God and Country
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #22 - Shadow War & God and Country

    S2:E8

    With unprecedented access in Iran and Iraq, Suroosh Alvi investigates a sprawling shadow war for the heart of the Middle East; Alzo Slade travels throughout the Bible Belt to see how the evangelical community is grappling with a post-Trump world and shaping the next chapter of the conservative religious landscape.

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  23. VICE Season 2 Episode 3 - Evicted & Haiti's New Strongman
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Evicted & Haiti's New Strongman

    S2:E3

    Jason Motlagh travels to Haiti to uncover the relationship between the government of the US-backed President, a local gang leader, and the recent violence; Ben Solomon meets those pulled into homelessness during the pandemic.

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  24. VICE Season 2 Episode 7 - Yemen's War Kids & Joint Custody
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Yemen's War Kids & Joint Custody

    S2:E7

    Isobel Yeung gains rare access to the frontlines of Marib and explores how the escalation in Yemen's conflict is impacting its most vulnerable citizens— children; Krishna Andavolu reports on how parents across the country who use pot can face losing custody of their kids even in states where it has been legalized.

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  25. VICE Season 3 Episode 2 - Russian Mercenaries & Treat, Release, Repeat
    7.4/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Russian Mercenaries & Treat, Release, Repeat

    S3:E2

    Julia Steers gives viewers an unprecedented look at the global operations of the Kremlin-backed private military force, Wagner Group, as its reach spreads from Ukraine to Central Africa; Seb Walker examines the implications of shuttering state psychiatric hospitals and talks to those on the front lines of America's mental health crisis, some of whom are asking whether it's time to revisit and rethink the concept of asylums.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"El Darién & Out of Sight" is the worst rated episode of "VICE". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/28/2021. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Egypt's Silent War & Chain of Command".