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Why Americans shouldn’t dismiss Shiny Happy People’s warning of a Christian-controlled nation

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There is a reason it’s trending right now and you’re seeing it in your feeds and hearing about in conversations. Not only did it provide the history behind the Duggar family’s rise to fame that allowed them to promote their…[Continue Reading...]

As ‘Shiny Happy People’ Achieves Prime Video’s Biggest Docuseries Debut Ever, Amazon TV Chief Vernon Sanders Talks Strategy (EXCLUSIVE)

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“Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” has had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon Studios, Variety has learned. The limited series investigates controversies surrounding the Duggar family, best known for TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,”…[Continue Reading...]

Shiny Happy People is a great reminder of why cult documentaries should exist

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I grew up adjacent to the fundamentalist Christian cult that Shiny Happy People, the four-part docuseries ostensibly about the reality TV-famous Duggar family, was really about. The Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP), founded and led by a man named…[Continue Reading...]

Watching the Duggar documentary on Amazon Prime has ripped open old wounds

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Earlier this month Amazon Prime launched its bombshell documentary series, “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets,” a no-holds-barred look at the controversy-ridden Duggar family of “19 Kids and Counting” fame. The documentary features interviews with some Duggar family members, including…[Continue Reading...]

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets Cast Guide

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Contrary to the title, the new documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets isn't all about the famous Duggar family, and other important voices lend their story, opinions, and feelings about the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). Bill Gothard…[Continue Reading...]

The Duggar Family’s Religion: All About the Controversial Church IBLP

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The Duggar family gave the world a look into their strict Christian household throughout 10 seasons of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting. The series, which aired from 2008 to 2015, highlighted many of the family’s ultra-conservative ways —…[Continue Reading...]

‘Insidious organization’: a reality TV family and the dangers of fundamentalism

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Any casual peruser of American cable television is probably familiar with the Duggar family – if not with the specifics of their juggernaut series on TLC, then with the sheer number of them. From 2007 until 2015, the Duggars, a…[Continue Reading...]

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