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I loved the subject content, and really could not believe I had not heard about this before. But I did not like how it glossed over subjects, missed information entirely and didn't look into osho enough, it definitely felt biased towards rajneeshes but I loved the interviews and seeing how some people still believed, they definitely had that glassy eyed look and I was fascinated watching them still in total awe of osho and I'm still in awe as to why they can't see the truth.

So 50/50 in my opinion, great subject matter and interesting interviews but for 6 episodes it should have been more in depth.

I was very interested in the documentary because I wanted to get some background for Osho's books, which are still quite popular among some of the people I know.

The main thing I like is that, unlike a lot of other documentaries, it doesn't subconsciously make you take sides by the end of it.

However, it was so unnecessarily long, I kept questioning myself throughout whether I had that much spare time for such a topic. It took me more than a month to finish it, and I still have a feeling of time wasted.

I also can't help to think that some of the important factors were intentionally left out of focus, and they're mostly money-related. Did they try to present it from an angle of an average member? Maybe, felt like that to me.

Amazing content, never heard of these people before and it was interesting to learn about them. Netflix did an amazing job by interviewing important people and showed some good old tapes related to the story. But i felt it was just too long and that's the problem with Netflix documentary they always try to stretch their documentaries way too much.

Classic Netflix stretching what should have been a 2 hour documentary into a 6 hour series.

Main thing this made me say throughout was - how did all of this went down and I had never head about it before?

This is an impressive record of

• how people get into the cults in the first place, why do they sometimes ahve blind obidience to their leaders
• what cults can achieve when they have a great sense of community and commeradry
• how do these communities are able (or not in this case) to co-exhist with the other inhabitants of the places where they chose to build their communities

this is masterfully pulled off in Wild Wild Country

It will make you go from rooting for and against the members of Osho's following very quickly, and it will an important tale of the complexity of religious freedom in the US

If you like other docu-dramas by Netflix and have interest in cult / religion experiences, this is for you

I highly recommend his fifty plus hours of lectures on Spotify explaining Ashtavakra Gita, Mahavir's teachings about Jainism, and Bhagavad-gita. His insights, logic, oration, and the detailed explanation of Vedas and Upnishads are second to none. I found them immensely helpful in living a joyful life of service to humanity. All these lectures were delivered a long time before the events depicted in this miniseries.

As an admirer of ancient teachings, I find it hard to see the sequence of events depicted in this miniseries. Where did things go wrong? Can a brilliant mind lose control when it acquires unlimited power over a large group of individuals?

Can I still respect his explanations of above mentioned holy scripture? Will his prior teachings ever get the due respect it deserves?

Who knew things like this happened in the US. I guess I live in a boring area in the east coast !

An insightful docu-series which majorly covers the American episode of Osho. The series was an eye-opener and apart from the fact that it was a bit slow paced, it was awesome. The soundtrack was good, particularly 'Thank you Lord' featuring in the end of E2. Must watch.

Despite the fact that some twists and story elements are overexpressed, the show brings the patient viewer some real questions, facts and dilemmas about the world we live in.

Ever since I've known about this story, I've pretty much had the unwavering belief that Sheela is the most irredeemable psychopath (fictional or true crime), that I've ever come across. Why not just make a documentary taking Ted Bundy's side? (and she is on that same level of evil) Even now, supposedly working with the mentally ill, I'm positive that she's up to some Dorothea Puente-inspired scheme. Netflix should stick to documentaries that portray real life serial killer-type monsters for what they are, and not give them a platform to explain their crimes, most of which she can't even admit to.

This TV Serie is the most graphic representation of communism and populism on a small scale. This is exactly how the great populisms work in the world under dictatorships or fraudulent leftist governments. North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia. This TV series should be shown in all schools in the world to clearly show the modus operandi of this sinister and aberrant thinking. The pattern is always the same: A primary leader along with several secondary, extremely powerful and rich sub-leaders (not 1, not 2, not 3 but 10 Rolls Roys as an example) who recruit people with some type of emotional or physical need under a promise of some idyllic, romantic and hopeful idea, which never arrives.

The documentary is very ambiguous about who the sannyasins were, and what their agenda was at that time. Yet once you start to dig into the documentary, you can see that they are indeed a cult. They talk about Bhagwan being their master, and you could see in their eyes the disconnect from reality like some sort of trance. I certainly understand where the locals were coming from surrounding Bhagwan, Sheela, the followers, and their "different methods of meditation treatments". It was a manipulative sex cult that capitalized financially on people looking for "something different". The worst part of the whole thing is that Sheela is/was a narcissistic woman who thinks she's smarter than everyone in the world. A real piece of work if you ask me. She's lucky she's still alive today considering some of the stuff she did.

Interesting, well done but too slow and loose quality for this. Could be in 3 episode. Pity

For such documentaries, one can forgive Netflix for what it is doing in movies environment. I really loved it and the efforts to be unbiased ( albeit not fully successful ). Two things I did not like , too long and there are too many questions that needed to answered and issues should be elaborated, eg. why did they fled India, the bombing in the hotel, proper and logical justification for the enmity between them and the officials. from other reviews, there are many things the makers of the doc. decided to overlook. For me it is basically about entertainment and cinematography, after all, it is not a PhD essay.

Fascinating subject matter and excellent footage, but sometimes the music was overpowering. I'm not sure what the goal of the relentlessness churning score, but it made the series more overwhelming than necessary. Story was plenty.

The series tells the story of an extreme example of the very human desire to belong. It was fascinating to hear of these events from the people who were there. Interestingly, in the first few episodes you don't hear what motivated each of them from the people themselves; most of their initial insights into personal behaviour come across as a little air-brushed. It's only when others comment about their behaviour does it start to make more sense. Eventually their motivations are exposed. As usual, they all seem to have relished belonging to a cause or side. And of course they all wanted to win the battle. Overall, I think they could have condensed the telling. I would have preferred 4 sharply focused episodes than the 6 rambling episodes we have here.

I agree this was very long, but it was the abundance of detail and source material that was so interesting and clarifying. A lot of the reviewers here seem to be saying that it was biased towards the Rajneeeshi, simply because the producers took care to present their side at all. For me, the townspeople were prejudiced from the start, rather than making any attempt to understand where these people were coming from. Perhaps if they had been more open-minded and had seen the development of the ranch as an opportunity for a dying village, the whole thing might not have ramped up into violence and eventual failure on both sides.

Ok so we're only two episodes in to Wild Wild Country, but the story is so compelling that we just need to keep watching. I have no clue how it will end having never heard of Osho and Rajneeshpuram before. BUT...Netflix- why the bloody awful, relentless music ALL THE WAY THROUGH???? I just don't understand it. The story is fascinating, the characters are compelling and the whole thing is plenty enough to keep people engaged and entertained. Drowning everything (and drown it does) in non-stop, rubbish music does absolutely nothing to enhance the viewing experience. 7 stars for this reason for what otherwise could well have been a 10.