Wild Wild Country (2018)

Directed by

Chapman Way, Maclain Way

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 304 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series follows the rise and fall of a religious commune in rural Oregon led by a controversial Indian guru. It focuses on the conflicts between the followers, local residents, and the U.S. government.

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What happens

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon, US. It was released on Netflix on March 16, 2018, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. The title of the series is drawn from the Bill Callahan song "Drover", which features prominently in the final episode, and it also echoes the comments of Jane Stork ("Ma Shanti Bhadra") about first seeing the ranch, shown at the beginning of second episode: "it was just so wild, so rugged, but vast—really wild country". The series received positive reviews from critics and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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