How to Become a Cult Leader
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 28, 2023
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    Jul 27, 2023
    25
    The overall sarcastic nature of the series seems at odds with the horrors these men unleashed. Somehow, providing helpful “tactics” via bite-size tips — “tend your flock,” “get your dogma down,” “expand your territory” — just seems weird. “How to Become a Cult Leader” instead becomes a playbook of an unintended sort: How not to make a docuseries.