I’m seeing a lot of people on my socials talking about this - will investigate for myself tonight!
Ooh, I do enjoy a good cult documentary, cheers. I also find it fascinating that if you observe the speech patterns and content of a lot of these cult leaders, they all employ very similar tactics. In fact, I’ve said for years that I can see a huge similarity with how Jim Jones talked to his disciples, and how Donald Trump speaks to his supporters (and let’s not forget how emphatically he pushed the QAnon theory). I guess that is why they are able to appeal to such a vast demographic - by coming out with phrases and cliches that are repeated so often that even though their supporters may not agree with everything they say, these figureheads are able to sufficiently mitigate any cognitive dissonance their subjects may have, becasue they want to believe in the cause so much. It really is the only way i can explain in my mind what is going on in the US right now. Same as Germany in the 1930/40s.
Basically, if you want to gain control of a large number of any population, and get them onboard, come up with a catchy slogan and then love-bomb/gaslight them. Trump is a master of this.
‘Brexit’ was another. Soon as that became parlance the job was done.
Twin Flames is another to check
Edge of Everything on prime is a good watch.
Ronnie blazing !
Yeah enjoyed Twin Flames. Such a messed up organization. 
Thought that was brilliant!
Probably already been mentioned somewhere but I thought that Wild Wild Country doc was amazing. Still on Netflix I think. That dude had all the trappings 
And their own nightclub and loads of mdma !
i was the right age and was in the right location (portland) for all of this - it was front page news pretty much every day for years as i was growing up.
juuuust before wild wild country came out, i had an outline of a screenplay for an oregon-based rajneeshee drama prepped. with the popularity of “stranger things” (and to a lesser degree “everything sucks!” i had decided that there was an appetite for a story about the type of families that i grew up with during that time - mostly about gen x youth, divorce, the rajneeshees (a number of my schoolmates’ parents or extended family were affiliated or had run off to be full-time members) - mostly just family strife in our particularly weird little area. i thought it would be perfect - the whole rajneesh story hadn’t been told yet.
i was working for amazon studios at the time and thought i had a decent chance of finding a way to pitch it - and then a few months later, wild wild country came out and i thought welp, hard to do this now without looking like i’m trying to ride coattails.
Finished the finale of Billions. It was utterly preposterous but I couldnt help enjoy it. By the end every character spoke in pseudo hipster speak, and the dialogue was littered with silly pop culture references.
Havent started it yet but Slow Horses season 3 is back on Apple.
Oh it’s up now? That’s the weekend sorted then. Really enjoyed the first 2 seasons.
New season of Slow Horses. I really liked the last seasons. They’ve upped the tempo from the get-go in this one, but so far, so good.
Oops! Hadn’t read the post above!
Watched the first two, GO and KST are godly as usual, I think a few of the minor characters are out of their depth especially if their scenes are cut close to the stars. But who wouldn’t be. Katherine Waterstone was great, love her in Inherent Vice. Best thing on telly at the mo.
Double a side single
Totally agree. It’s like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy punctuated by uncontrollable flatulence. It shouldn’t work, but it does.
Al Kent epic reworks from the original master tapes.