News

Spoilers ahead for the first season of The Vow. The Vow will go down as one of the worst docuseries in recent memory. Working from the captivating true story of Nxivm—a multi-level marketing scheme that turned out to also be a sex cult led by co-founder and leader Keith Raniere—filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Nouhaim used a wealth of footage shot by documentarian Mark Vicente and his fellow defectors Bonnie Piesse, Sarah Edmondson, and Anthony Ames, to tell a story about…it’s unclear. The first season (a second season has already been ordered) spanned nine …...

Sex cult documentary series The Vow is coming back for a second season on HBO.

The premium cable network has renewed the series, from directors and exec producers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, to continue to the story of the Nxivm cult. Season 2 will air in 2021.

It will be set against the backdrop of the federal trial of the United States against Keith Raniere and will offer a further view into Raniere’s innermost circle. It delves into the stories of Nxivm’s top leadership in the US and Mexico, and into powerful, intimate stories of Dos members. Season 2 follows the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and stunning revelations come to light while federal prosecutors and defense attorneys battle for opposing views of justice in a case caught in the national spotlight.

The series, which premiered in August, followed the members of “self-improvement” group Nxivm,...

If you’re an “inside Hollywood” person, one who scours the blind item gossip community, then you probably heard about Nxivm before most people did. It wasn’t until the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement that most people learned the name of Keith Rainere, the guru/sex trafficker and his band of followers, many of whom were prominent actresses during the early aughts. But Nxivm remains a shadowy organization and it’s unclear how HBO’s nine-part documentary series “The Vow” will elucidate things for everyone.

It’s easy to understand why Nxivm has sailed under the radar in the world of cult fascination. It’s not as well-connected as Scientology nor is it as outlandish in its philosophies (or as deadly) compared to Heaven’s Gate. Nxivm is like if Goop and Scientology had a baby. As “The Vow” lays out, it started out as more of a lifestyle and wellness organization,...

Half a dozen projects about Nxivm have emerged since the accusations arose that the group is a sex-trafficking cult that kept women as sex slaves for its founder, Keith Raniere, and that he branded them with his initials.

So far, Lifetime, HBO and ID have all announced new projects in development or production. No doubt more are coming — and a handful already exist to quell the public’s insatiable thirst for insider information about the organization that presented itself as a self-improvement group.

Nxivm first captured attention from national media and Hollywood last year after charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy were brought against some of its highest-ranking members, most notably former “Smallville” star Allison Mack and Raniere himself.

Also Read: 'The Lost Women of Nxivm': ID Orders 2-Hour Special on Sex-Trafficking Cult

Lifetime’s is the most recent project to be announced, with a film in the works...

Exclusive: Nxivm has been making headlines the past few weeks with the high-profile arrests of founder Keith Raniere and one of his top lieutenants, Smallville actress Allison Mack, on charges of sex trafficking as the so called self-help organization has been called by prosecutors a sex cult that has been keeping women as “slaves,” and branding them with Raniere’s initials.

One of those branded women is Canadian actress Sarah Edmondson who last fall became the first to speak out about the alleged abuse after a decade inside Nxivm along with her husband, Anthony Ames, a fellow actor and former Ivy-League Quarterback.

Edmondson and Ames are now slated to headline a documentary TV series. Set against the ongoing legal drama involving the leaders of Nxivm, the series will follow the duo as they, under the guidance of renowned cult expert and deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross, head of the Cult Education Institute,...