Season 1 – Wild Wild Country

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Stephen C @bob25009 Jun 30 6 real episodes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Gareth v @geewah 06/24/2023 An amazing and incredible story. Brilliant doco that combines source footage as well interviews with key players to produce what is arguably 2018's best docu-series. See more Hemant S @RT50421404 04/04/2023 To start with, this is a brilliant piece of documentary film making. There are literally no sides taken. As you watch it through and through with a neutral, humane perspective, you can see yourself swaying like you're on a moral see saw. That's how beautifully balanced this is. However at some point, you can see how raw, flawed and almost inhuman each side in this battle gets in order to "survive". The admiration and worship of a man that literally spills over the edges with fanaticism. The blindness and arrogance that power brings in to a deputy, almost stripping them of any empathy or kindness; the essence of what they were following as a way of life. The blind faith in the proxy leader that turned a peace loving mother into an assassin. But at the same time, there is a beautiful reference to how she "broke the spell". There are lines that make you wonder what power in the world makes a human being so delusional – "the joys of surrendering to the master", "the master of masters". The hysteria creeps up to a point where the whole crux of what was being followed and taught and revered is referred to as a con by the people who lead the very movement. But if you listen carefully, with an open, non-perceptive mind, what the man intended to show, to teach and for everyone to self-realize wasn't anything bad or wrong or overtly religious or spiritual or magical – it perhaps was something that would have evolved us, if it was channeled and moderated and propagated in the right way. The visuals and interviews also reek of pure xenophobia and prejudice at times; how repulsive people can be to the natives of another country or culture attempting to settle down in their midst. This is a pure spectacle of how fanaticism, politics, megalomania, xenophobia, paranoia, blind faith, greed and so many other dark elements create an ugly chemical reaction of sorts – an explosion that changes every one in the fray. While you may end up thinking how ridiculous the whole saga is, there is so much to learn from this even though this is the past. The characters, the thoughts, the dark elements still exist in our present day – multiplied, magnified and scattered throughout the world. Makes you really wonder where we are headed into. See more 05/17/2022 Pretty good, but it was way too long. The interviews were good, but they made the series so long it did not seem to have a structure and seemed like it was just people rambling on. Like have the run time is some version of Sheela saying that she was going to fight and she was not going to back down. Almost the whole thing felt like the introduction to something that just would not take off. When something interesting was revealed, it took so long to get there and had been hinted at for so long that I felt almost no impact. Part of the problem was probably that it was so slow, it was hard to pay attention. Two hours would have been plenty enough time for this. See more 04/04/2022 Wild Wild Country certainly lives up to its name - everything about this cult was wild. Fortunately they don't delve into sensationalizing the events for excitement - people from both sides of the conflict are interviewed in equal measure. Seeing just how brainwashed these people are TO THIS DAY is a site to behold. See more Andrew H @RT34669399 02/18/2022 I thought this was an interesting series but they could have compressed some of the episodes See more Read all reviews

Wild Wild Country — Season 1

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