POV's 25th season continues with an encore of the moving Finnish film framed by a national obsession with the sauna. Steam of Life airs Thursday, August 16, 2012, on PBS.

Each Friday, we share a selection of comments relating to the week's documentary broadcast. This week, viewers posted their reactions to Steam of Life, a moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men framed by a national obsession with the sauna.

"Joy rises up like steam from a bed of hot rocks." Read what critics have to say about Steam of Life, tonight's POV documentary that goes deep into the inner sanctum of Finnish life — the sauna.

POV's 24th season continues with the U.S. broadcast premiere of Steam of Life. The film airs on PBS on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.