Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: June 8, 2022

Summary: The four-part documentary series directed by Rachel Dretzin features never-before-scene footage and interviews with survivors as it examines the polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) led by Warren Jeffs.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E4. Part Four
Air Date: June 8, 2022
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S1:E3. Part Three
Air Date: June 8, 2022
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S1:E2. Part Two
Air Date: June 8, 2022

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Kristen Baldwin

Jun 7, 2022

Though the four-part series from director Rachel Dretzin is extremely hard to watch at times, the first-hand accounts from survivors are nothing short of awe-inspiring. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Jun 7, 2022

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director Rachel Dretzin has crafted a masterful, engrossing and at times chilling series that plays out like a real-life horror movie; even the eerily effective score sounds like something out of Blumhouse Productions. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jun 7, 2022

Dretzin’s series functions as a celebration of the strength and self-confidence necessary to achieve genuine liberation. ... The likelihood of this series changing hearts and minds is probably scant. Nonetheless, at its best, it plays like an exposé designed less for viewers who would never find themselves in these circumstances than for those whose eyes have yet to be fully opened. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jun 8, 2022

Drestzin has done her job. ... If you want insight into a closed society that is only known via blaring headlines, then watch Keep Sweet: Pray And Obey. Just be ready for a narrative that will make you uncomfortable and angry at the same time. Read full review

Bob Strauss

Jun 7, 2022

At a time when American women’s rights are threatened by a wider array of religion-based forces, though, this straightforward document of how extreme it can get looks pretty necessary. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jun 9, 2022

There’s a noble effort here in collecting their stories. But because it traffics so heavily in trauma from start to finish, often involving child sexual abuse, treating this saga mostly as a shocking play-by-play with a reptilian boogeyman at the center feels a little cheap. Something about "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" just doesn't sit quite right. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jul 11, 2022

"Keep Sweet" is occasionally guilty of veering too far into the weeds of individual stories and engages in some sleazy flourishes -- like adding graphics to make Jeffs' eyes appear snake-like when someone refers to them as such -- that don't belong in a serious documentary. ... "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" ultimately owes its strength to those who didn't obey and possessed the courage to break free, as well as outsiders working to expose what was happening. Read full review

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geewah

Jun 16, 2022

While the subject matter is disturbing and worthy of a documentary, the makers here have somehow made this bloated and rather mundane.

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Burgundi

Jan 5, 2023

Horrific, yes, but insufficient at best. If someone wants to learn about you, should they get their information from your ex? Would you trust your ex to be fair to you? And if not, would you still trust Ex-FLDS to be fair? Every religion has people who become disaffected and withdraw andHorrific, yes, but insufficient at best. If someone wants to learn about you, should they get their information from your ex? Would you trust your ex to be fair to you? And if not, would you still trust Ex-FLDS to be fair? Every religion has people who become disaffected and withdraw and even bad-mouth it. While the stories of Ex-FLDS are indeed heartbreaking, we cannot accept them as the full story, nor as a fair representation of the FLDS culture itself. Most people do not know FLDS personally, and Ex-FLDS "witnesses" know this. Could they be exploiting it?… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 8, 2022
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  S1:E4. Part Four
  Air Date: June 8, 2022
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  S1:E3. Part Three
  Air Date: June 8, 2022
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  S1:E2. Part Two
  Air Date: June 8, 2022
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  S1:E1. Part One
  Air Date: June 8, 2022