How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series

TV-MA

2023

Poster for How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series

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6 episodes
Documentary
Netflix Original

Look inside the cult leader's playbook for achieving unconditional love, endless devotion and the power to control people's minds, bodies,... More

Look inside the cult leader's playbook for achieving unconditional love, endless devotion and the power to control people's minds, bodies, and souls.

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Where to watch How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series

How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series is available... More to stream in Australia now on Netflix.

How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series episodes

Build Your Foundation

Embrace your calling and reinvent yourself by studying the life... More of petty criminal and folk rock troubadour-turned-murderous legend Charles Manson.

Grow Your Flock

Build a fervent following by retracing the steps of Jim... More Jones, whose messiah complex turned a small healing grift into a dangerously loyal congregation.

Reform Their Minds

Return to Buddhafield and unlock the mastery of manipulation with... More Jaimie Gomez, a failed actor who built an army of servants by promising enlightenment.

Promise Eternity

Apocalypse, anyone? Create credible danger and consolidate power by studying... More the spiritual, sci-fi narrative of Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite.

Control Your Image

Leverage media coverage to cultivate a pious image like Shoko... More Asahara, who built the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on positive PR and deadly methods.

Become Immortal

Avoid unhappy endings and cement your legacy by studying Sun... More Myung Moon, who transformed the Unification Church into a still-thriving economic machine.

How to Become a Cult Leader: Limited Series | Ratings & Reviews

57_%7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
52_%9 reviews
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"Sometimes clever, sometimes glib, always superficial."

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Hollywood Reporter

"How to Become a Cult Leader... becomes a playbook of an unintended sort: How not to make a docuseries."

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San Francisco Chronicle

"(This season) seems to concentrate more on the biographical aspects... than try to be clever with its handbook conceit."

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Decider

"No subject matter should be off-limits to satire, but the juxtaposition between the upbeat, tongue-in-cheek narration... and the straightforward documentary visuals comes across as tone-deaf and snarky."

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