Essential (2021)
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- First Air Date: 2021-04-21
- Last Air Date: 2024-04-02
- Total Seasons: 5
- Total Episodes: 49
- Status: Returning Series
- Episode Runtime: 25 min.
- Production Country: Portugal
- Network: SIC
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Suicide Forests | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Stoned Moms | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Krokodil Tears | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The War on Kids | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Cocaine & Crude: Mexican Drug Cartels Discover Oil | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Takanakuy: Fist Fighting In The Andes | 2016-02-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | High Country | 2016-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Darknet | 2016-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Gay Conversation Therapy | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Bare Knuckle | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | A Day in Slab City | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Corruption, Cocaine and Murder in Trinidad | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Brainwashed by Westboro Baptist Church | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Depotree Purgatory | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | North Korean Labor Camps | 2016-03-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Swansea Love Story | 2016-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | Heimo's Arctic Refuge | 2016-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | The VICE Guide to Karachi | 2016-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | The VICE Guide to North Korea, Part 1 | 2016-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Return of the Black Death | 2016-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | The Sapo Diaries | 2016-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Epicly Later'd: John Cardiel | 2016-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor | 2016-03-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Cloning the Woolly Mammoth | 2016-03-07 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | A Crime Unpunished: Bangladesh Gang Rape | 2016-03-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Toxic Garbage Island | 2016-03-07 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Kings of Cannabis | 2016-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | Big Cats of the Gulf | 2016-03-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | The VICE Guide to North Korea, Part 2 | 2016-03-08 | 120 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Sewers of Bogota | 2016-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | Young and Gay in Putin's Russia | 2016-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | Crime and Punishment in the Gaza Strip | 2016-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | The Biggest Guns Money Can Buy | 2016-03-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | The Legend of Cambo | 2016-04-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Epicly Later'd: Olson/Rattray | 2016-04-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Wakaliwood | 2016-04-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | Female Fighters of Kurdistan | 2016-04-27 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Thai Prison Fights | 2016-04-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | Magic: The Gathering | 2016-05-03 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | The Real: True Detectives | 2016-05-03 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | Cleveland Strangler | 2016-05-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | Iceman | 2016-05-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 43 | An Erotic Publishing Empire | 2016-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 44 | The Escobar Effect | 2016-05-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 45 | Mobile Love Industry | 2016-06-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 46 | Maternity Leave | 2016-06-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 47 | Deportee Slums of Mexico | 2016-06-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 48 | Drunken Horse Racing | 2016-06-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 50 | The New King of Coke | 2016-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 51 | Climbing Lebanon | 2016-06-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 52 | Life After Food | 2016-06-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 53 | The Unicorn Life | 2016-06-15 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 54 | Boy Racer | 2016-06-15 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 55 | Epicly Later'D: Brian Anderson | 2016-06-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 56 | Inhuman Kind | 2016-06-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 57 | Debt Collector | 2016-06-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 58 | New Iraqi Cinema | 2016-06-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 59 | How to Make Mission Style Tacos With Tony Trujillo | 2016-06-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 60 | The Pizza King | 2016-07-02 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 61 | The Wolfpack: The Making Of Mirror Heart | 2016-07-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 62 | The Completely Blind Hunter | 2016-07-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 63 | Hollywood's Quicksand Fetish | 2016-07-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 64 | Stranded on Kos | 2016-07-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 65 | The Real Wolf Of Wall Street | 2016-07-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 66 | Shoenice22 | 2016-07-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 67 | The Last Lesbian Bars | 2016-07-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 68 | Bio-Prospecting in Panama | 2016-07-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 69 | My Homie Sells Homies | 2016-07-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 70 | How to Make Food with Matty Matheson | 2016-07-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 71 | Mukbang | 2016-08-03 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 72 | The 20,000 Calorie Strongman Diet | 2016-08-05 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 73 | Epicly Later'd: Sean Malto | 2016-08-05 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 74 | Forever Young | 2016-08-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 75 | Munchies Guide to Scotland | 2016-08-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 76 | Nonna Marijuana's Italian Feast | 2016-08-17 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 77 | Bong Appetit | 2016-08-17 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 78 | Spice Boys | 2016-08-29 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 79 | Inside the Michigan Militia | 2016-08-30 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Frozen Faith | 2016-09-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Walking Heavy | 2016-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Cemetery Slum | 2016-09-14 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Young Brides for Sale | 2016-09-14 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Kingdom of the Little People | 2016-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Murder, Mayhem and Meditation | 2016-09-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | How to Make Back-Alley Ribs with Matty Matheson | 2016-09-16 | 11 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | The Real Better Call Saul | 2016-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Matthew Lekso's Life Lessons | 2016-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Farang | 2016-09-26 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Forever Young | 2016-09-27 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Ibiza: Spring Breakers of Europe | 2016-09-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | Deep Space Robot Gardeners | 2016-09-30 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | A Canadian Barbeque | 2016-10-04 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | Rally Race Car Driver Verena Mei | 2016-10-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | Meet Scotland's DIY Rocketeers | 2016-10-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | Living On The Road | 2016-10-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | Humanizing Data Through Art | 2016-10-31 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | Spice Boys | 2016-11-11 | 13 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Iceman | 2016-11-25 | 30 min |