8.9 /10 2 Votes
7.9/10 TV No. of seasons 7 First episode date 1 July 2009 Genre Documentary film | 7.6/10 IMDb Narrated by Justin Peed Original language(s) English No. of episodes 63 Presented by Daniel K. Riskin Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monsters Inside Me is an American television documentary series about infectious diseases. It includes first-person interviews with people and medical professionals telling their personal stories about contracting rare diseases. Interviews with contributors are shot on location across North America. Recreations are mostly filmed in hospitals and homes in New York City.
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Summary

Each episode has dramatizations that show illnesses caused by an infectious disease or medical affliction. Once the agent has been identified, their life cycles and general behaviors are illustrated. Justin Peed is the narrator, and biologist Dan Riskin explains how and why each infectious agent works inside its host. Most shows start as a common diagnosed disease but then transform into a different life-threatening or serious disease, which will be cured most time at the end. Out of the 183 cases documented on the show, only 11 of those ended in the victim dying, usually from a disease with an extremely low survival rate.

The show's first two seasons focused solely on parasites and parasitic infections, but since the third season, the show has shifted from being just about parasites to being about general infectious diseases and medical afflictions, including those caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and foreign objects.

The second season premiered on Wednesday June 9, 2010 and then returned for a third season on October 5, 2012. As of January 7, 2011, Monsters Inside Me was broadcast in Canada by Discovery Science. It also airs on Discovery in the UK, and broadcasts in different languages on various Discovery networks across the world.
Episodes
Six seasons have been produced and completed airing, while a seventh season is currently still premiering.

Reception

Mike Hale of The New York Times said that "there’s science amid the frightening stories" and said that the series "really grossed him out."
Anne Louise Bannon of Common Sense Media said that "parents need to know that there is a lot of gross stuff in the series and the show has good educational content except for the tips on how to protect yourself from parasites because the information is vague".
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times wrote "Forget 'American Horror Story.' For several years now the scariest show on television has been Animal Planet’s 'Monsters Inside Me,' which recreates real cases of bizarre, life-threatening infections."
Spin-off
In 2013, a UK spin-off called Bugs, Bites & Parasites premiered on Discovery Channel UK.