'Wild Wild Country' (2018) does its best to tame the actual story but the story is too wild to be controlled. Its pretty good. But leaves me wondering so much more especially after each interview where every person sounds so certain they are correct.
That is actually one of the reasons why this docuseries is so good is that it has no narrator giving direction, correction, or opinion on each event or interviewee. However this can make it tough to discern what is the truth especially when the interviewees are not necessarily probed and we are relying upon their personal account of what happened and what they experienced.
The story is told in chronological order with almost everyone of importance being able to be interviewed if they are still living. My biggest takeaway from all these individuals was that their actions only escalated from fear of "others" coming for them. This fear however led to poisonings, deaths, illegal activities, and fear mongering.
I was not alive when this happened so I only learned about the Rajneeshpuram community due to following a rabbit hole on Wikipedia. The more I learned, the more I realized the story is crazier than Netflix shows. This docuseries is wild but still fairly tame. Give it a watch if you have the time it won't disappoint!
That is actually one of the reasons why this docuseries is so good is that it has no narrator giving direction, correction, or opinion on each event or interviewee. However this can make it tough to discern what is the truth especially when the interviewees are not necessarily probed and we are relying upon their personal account of what happened and what they experienced.
The story is told in chronological order with almost everyone of importance being able to be interviewed if they are still living. My biggest takeaway from all these individuals was that their actions only escalated from fear of "others" coming for them. This fear however led to poisonings, deaths, illegal activities, and fear mongering.
I was not alive when this happened so I only learned about the Rajneeshpuram community due to following a rabbit hole on Wikipedia. The more I learned, the more I realized the story is crazier than Netflix shows. This docuseries is wild but still fairly tame. Give it a watch if you have the time it won't disappoint!