Can we talk about how every cult doc now has the same boring ending?

I watched maybe 10 of these things in the last 6 months and they all wrap up with a text screen saying 'so and so is still active on social media' or 'the leader now runs a yoga retreat in Costa Rica'. It's like the filmmakers don't know how to end it. Earlier docs from like 2010 would actually follow up with survivors or show court filings. Now it's just a shrug and a caption. What happened to real closure or at least a proper update on the legal stuff?

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max_cooper217d ago

The text screens are just cheap replacements for actual investigative work that cost money to do.

brookeellis7d ago

Nah, those text screens just leave room for the story to keep going.

grant1557d ago

Of those ten docs you watched, how many actually had survivors willing to talk on camera or follow up with legal stuff? The 2010 ones you mentioned had years more access to people before these groups got wise to lawyers. Now every ex-member has a nondisclosure agreement or a fear of getting sued into the ground. The filmmakers probably hit dead ends trying to get anyone to go on record. Those text screens feel like a cop out but in my experience that's just the reality of trying to close a story when all the doors are locked.