User Reviews

You know with a title like that you would think it would be interesting. Nope, not this. It was just two women on a couch talking CONSTANTLY and the one lady interrupts the other d lady so much. Its so annoying. Watched 2 episodes and ots all that I could take. It did not tell me anything at all that I didn't already know. But yeah, this fell very far from a shocking documentary. I couldn't handle the two women and their constant bickering. It was like high school and the one lady was like a high school bully. Not well done what so ever. 90% is the two women on the couch! I'd have liked to see pictures, evidence, things of that sort..but no we got a talk show that didnt make any sense. Its a no from me dawg.

I love the way this document-series told this very complex story from the point of view of some of Ervil LaBaron's own children. The family stories and sharing together made it so personal. I liked the interviews as well as the "acting" out of the scenes. The sibling banter around the table was heart warming. To know not only that these siblings made it out but that they also grew up to be productive people is amazing. So many times we only hear the awful testimonies and not the redemption stories. It is very beautifully produced. All I wish is that there was MORE! Please produce more episodes!

This was a very interesting documentary. Thinking of the way all those poor cult children grew up is heartbreaking. The idea of just killing someone, like it was no big deal for them, was unbelivable. What really bothered me and the question I have is "why did the 2 teenage girls who finally escaped safely, not take their 6yr old little brother Hyrum?" They are all together right now, thank god, but it was so sad listening to Hyrum, as a man today, speak about how scared he was growing up. It was obvious that the lifestyle and the abuse he lived thru took a big toll on him. I'm happy to say, he is with them now, safe and sound. I guess there were way too many kids for them to worry about, not just Hyrum. Those 2 girls were only thinking of getting themselves as far away from there as possible. I will be watching it again.

Do you all remember the HBO series Big Love? When I was watching it, I was sure they'd taken much of it from Ervil's life and that fictional polygamy city Juniper was an awful lot like Short Creek which is now called Colorado City. And there is a character named Verlan, which is also the name of one of Ervil's brothers.

My husband watched these with me. Being a LeBaron myself, and being born into polygamy in Colonial LeBaron, I had some answers for him. But not a ton. Thankfully, I was not raised in that BS. From what I already knew of Ervil and the murders, this series seemed pretty accurate. But some things were different. For instance, I had been told most of my life that Ervil was poisoned in prison. Hm... In any case, I thought the series was pretty well done.

While interesting, the docu-series is very repetitive and jumps from shocking high crime to everyday life for the kids, which was really frustrating. Not that that's not interesting, but it was edited wrong imo.

Rena Chynoweth, angelic features, interviewed on the BBC, then details her shooting of a stranger to her because she was ordered to. Wow. That really was the most shocking part of all, how she could sit there and act the victim. Double jeopardy should not be applicable in those cases. You admit to murder? So what that you got off at your trial through perjury (all lying in court is perjury imo), you go to jail for that! Of COURSE you had a choice. I am really and deeply appalled.

Evil Ervil got what was overdue, he got off easy in the end.

The following murders are horrible, committed by disturbed people. It was really a deal with the devil having them convicted due to a co-conspirator confessing, who could have stopped it all before it happened.

We all get brainwashed from birth onwards. The society and family we get born into determine our view of the world. Good luck to all children. But especially to those that are taught they are chosen.