The Cult of the Family

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2019
59m

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6.5/10

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About the Melbourne-based cult The Family, which was led by the charming and dangerous Anne Hamilton-Byrne: a yoga teacher who claimed to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. Instead of serving wine and bread, Hamilton-Byrne fed LSD to her disciples - adopted children raised as her own throughout the 60s and 70s. She dressed them in identical clothes and haircuts; they resembled the pipsqueaks from "Village of the Damned".

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Former yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne led the Melbourne cult "The Family", claiming to be Jesus reincarnated. She adopted children, dressed them identically, and fed them LSD, raising them... Read allFormer yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne led the Melbourne cult "The Family", claiming to be Jesus reincarnated. She adopted children, dressed them identically, and fed them LSD, raising them as her own in the 60s and 70s.Former yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne led the Melbourne cult "The Family", claiming to be Jesus reincarnated. She adopted children, dressed them identically, and fed them LSD, raising them as her own in the 60s and 70s.

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3/10

Extremely disjointed narrative

Tried watching and couldn't make it through the first episode. I'm not Australian, and maybe that's part of the issue. This series presumed their audience knew of the case and the details. I knew nothing about it before watching (and still don't after) and the first episode felt like it should have been in the middle of a season. I couldn't follow the timeline or keep track of who was who.