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Summary The Duplass brothers-produced six-part documentary series about an Indian guru who wanted to build a 64,000-acre utopia from Chapman and Maclain Way features archival footage and interviews with the people and followers in the small Oregon town.
Wild Wild Country
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 16, 2018
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Summary The Duplass brothers-produced six-part documentary series about an Indian guru who wanted to build a 64,000-acre utopia from Chapman and Maclain Way features archival footage and interviews with the people and followers in the small Oregon town.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It’s a challenging piece that requires the viewer to acknowledge their own reactions and then question them. In that, Wild Wild Country may be even more vital to a divided nation. It demands you see the other side.
After the six-plus hours of Wild Wild Country flies by, you won't want an approach to this story any different or shorter than what the Ways do. ... By handling this story so intelligently and by opening its heart to a very complicated idea of good and evil, Wild Wild Country has a profound, mesmerizing power itself.
A highly pleasurable new documentary series.
Screened at the Sundance Film Festival in one exhausting, gripping gulp, it's a slice of partially forgotten history in which real life just keeps getting more and more outlandish and implausible. ... Wild Wild Country a worthwhile thought experiment in addition to a yarn that is, as the title promises, doubly wild.
Wild Wild Country ends up being a character study, an attempt to suss out whether Bhagwan and Sheela really bought what they were selling to white spiritual seekers, making millions in the process. ... That being said, the filmmakers’ tendency to skim over the more unseemly aspects of a story with many unseemly aspects to it may leave viewers wanting to know more about the wilder aspects of the case.
[Chapman and Maclain Way] haven’t given it much of a shape or a perspective--they go from one mind-blowing event and image to the next, and seem to just adopt the point of view of whoever’s talking at the moment, reinforcing it with correspondingly bright or sad or triumphant music (which becomes increasingly intrusive). Their own attitude, as far as it can be divined, appears to be a credulous sentimentality. But it is a great story, even if you just turn on the camera and let it roll.
In an effort to provide both sides of the story, the directors--especially in late, slow-motion-drenched elegiac passages full of uplifting and/or mournful music—buy too much of the pap being sold by the sannyasins. ... As a portrait of militant zeal and religious conflict, Wild Wild Country is a fascinating glimpse at the perils of fanaticism-run-amok and the contentious intersection between faith and freedom.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
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58 Ratings
7% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 User Ratings
7.7
83% Positive
58 Ratings
58 Ratings
7% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
10% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Fantastic docu-series. Sheela is a bit annoying and smug (understatement) but it is quite thrilling and never really leaves you bored. I could have done without showing that actual murder in the beginning though. I guess you need shock value in this day and age, though
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Production Company:
- Duplass Brothers Productions
Initial Release Date: Mar 16, 2018
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 4 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
