Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 29, 2015
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7.8

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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 50
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#17 Best TV Season of 2015

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Joshua Alston
    Jul 23, 2015
    100
    Going Clear is the most scorching, disturbing documentary in recent memory, not because Wright and Gibney smuggled agendas, but because the institutionalized cruelty and avarice alleged against the church of Scientology precludes pure objectivity.
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  2. Sioux City Journal
    Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
    Apr 7, 2015
    90
    Although it’s two hours long, Going Clear speeds by.... Mesmerizing? If you’ve had even a passing interest in Scientology, Going Clear will fascinate in ways you never thought possible.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Mar 30, 2015
    80
    More troubling, and the bulk of his case, is the testimony of former Scientologists, some of them high-ranked, some of them claiming inside knowledge. Defenders of the faith will say that they are lying now when they say they were lying then, but they seem quite credible and composed to me--amazed at the people they'd been, astonished by what they couldn't see, ashamed at their actions or inaction.
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