Netflix’s Wild Wild Country is one of the most intense, bizarre and mind-boggling documentaries you’ll ever sit through.
But trust me, you want to sit through it.
The six-part docuseries, which is executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, follows the rise and fall of a religious cult in rural Oregon.
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The documentary starts off in India where the cult leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, had built up a huge following of wealthy, middle-class expats.
They all lived together in an ashram, meditated, and gyrated around on the floor naked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Then Bhagwan appointed a woman named Ma Anand Sheela as his deputy and personal secretary. He put her in charge of finding land in America so they could expand their commune.
Sheela found a big patch of land just down the road from a small town called Antelope, which only had about 40 residents. She and a bunch Rajneeshees (yep, they named themselves after their leader) moved to America and started to build their own little town on the land.