I remember a RN I know saying at the time that Jackson's prescriptions were criminal, and there seems to be endless skeeze around the whole enterprise.
It’s a podcast rather than a documentary, but another good cult-adjacent property is Wondery’s Guru, about a self-help “guru,” who gained his popularity from appearing on Oprah and The Secret movie, who cooked 3 of his acolytes to death in an unsanctioned “sweat lodge” heat-endurance trial. It’s not a cult, per se, but there’s definitely plenty of NXIVM-esque coercive control disguised as “personal growth” involved.
The Real Crime Profile does an extremely deep dive on Guru as well, although I was pretty offended at the use of a Monty Python Life of Brian quote and clip to set up the premise in their first episode on it. Their analysis is on point, though.
Saw People's Temple at the LA Film Festival. Q and A included three survivors of the mass suicide. Only marring memory was of a guy in the audience who kept asking them why they were alive. They looked at him like he was crazy and, finally, the moderator moved on.
I remember a RN I know saying at the time that Jackson's prescriptions were criminal, and there seems to be endless skeeze around the whole enterprise.
It’s a podcast rather than a documentary, but another good cult-adjacent property is Wondery’s Guru, about a self-help “guru,” who gained his popularity from appearing on Oprah and The Secret movie, who cooked 3 of his acolytes to death in an unsanctioned “sweat lodge” heat-endurance trial. It’s not a cult, per se, but there’s definitely plenty of NXIVM-esque coercive control disguised as “personal growth” involved.
The Real Crime Profile does an extremely deep dive on Guru as well, although I was pretty offended at the use of a Monty Python Life of Brian quote and clip to set up the premise in their first episode on it. Their analysis is on point, though.
Saw People's Temple at the LA Film Festival. Q and A included three survivors of the mass suicide. Only marring memory was of a guy in the audience who kept asking them why they were alive. They looked at him like he was crazy and, finally, the moderator moved on.