The Family (2019)
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| Netflix | Release Date: August 9, 2019 |
Summary:
The documentary series looks into The Fellowship, a Christian fundamentalist organization and its influence on politicians in and outside of Washington, D.C.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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S1:E10. Episode 10
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S1:E9. Episode 9
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S1:E7. Episode 7
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IndieWire
Aug 14, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
From adulterous senators to anti-LGBTQ European demagogues to African gangster-statesmen, The Family shows over and over how The Fellowship was co-opted by politicians to curry favor with the evangelical power structure. ... What The Family doesn’t do is explain why The Fellowship exists in the first place. Why were so many upstanding men (and, um, some women in there, somewhere) not only drawn to Fellowship work but committed to it for years?
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Aug 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Clearly, The Family is trying to run a lot of threads through the needle here, and director Jesse Moss, who directed the excellent documentary The Overnighters, lets some of them hang a little too loosely. ... It wasn’t that there’s no “there” there — there’s more than enough “there” — but Moss leaves out some crucial pieces of the puzzle that would make it complete.
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Aug 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Moss embraces the stylistic trappings of conspiratorial exposés to tell his story—dramatic reenactments, a plinky and faintly menacing piano score, selective splicing of clips featuring Maria Butina and Muammar Gaddafi. And yet, as the series continues, it’s unclear whether the Fellowship is as powerful as it would like to be, or whether its aura of mystery is its most distinct asset.
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RogerEbert.com
Aug 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Moss leaves a lot of this open to interpretation, but the result is a project that can feel like an information dump more often than a film. It’s often like one of those conspiracy theory videos that throws out a ton of information but never shapes it into something with meaning.
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Jul 17, 2022
It is more informative than anything else. Especially since most of its content is left open to the viewer's interpretation, but considering it came out 3 years ago. Evidently people didn't pay attention considering what the Christian right has done in the US in that time.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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S1:E10. Episode 10
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E9. Episode 9
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E7. Episode 7
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E5. Wolf King
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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S1:E4. Dictators, Murderers & Thieves
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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S1:E3. New World Order
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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S1:E2. Chosen
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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S1:E1. Submersion
Air Date: August 9, 2019
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Season 1 Overview