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| FX | Season Premiere Date: August 12, 2022 |
Summary:
The five-part documentary series about Faye Yager and the network of people and safe houses she used to help hundreds of mothers and children hide from alleged abusers.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E5. The Bounty
Air Date: August 13, 2022
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S1:E4. The Reckoning
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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S1:E3. Satanic Panic
Air Date: August 12, 2022
The Daily Beast
Aug 8, 2022
IndieWire
Aug 8, 2022
Yager isn’t a saint, as the documentary lays out, and viewers are never really given an indication of how the documentarian feels. The audience is left to question Yager’s motives and helping a child go abroad feels like villain territory, no matter the context. But placed against a tearful woman, seen in archival footage, whose own children were kidnapped by Yager, there seems to be more to the story.
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RogerEbert.com
Aug 10, 2022
Throughout, the series circles around the idea of whether Yager did the right thing, asking the same question that people ask of caped crusaders: Who gave you the right to be a vigilante, and take the law into your own hands? That complicated part about Yager and her work drives the series through its murkiness, and makes it expansive storytelling here compelling and harrowing.
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Seasons & Episodes
- Series Overview
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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S1:E5. The Bounty
Air Date: August 13, 2022
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S1:E4. The Reckoning
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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S1:E3. Satanic Panic
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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S1:E2. The Underground
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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S1:E1. The Escape
Air Date: August 12, 2022
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Season 1 Overview