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Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets

Season 1
A limited docuseries exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv’s favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them: The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Meet The Duggars
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    June 1, 2023
    45min
    16+
    The shiny facade of America's favorite giant family, and the ministry that guided their conservative values, is shattered, revealing a troubling reality underneath.
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  2. S1 E2 - Growing up Gothard
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    June 1, 2023
    51min
    16+
    As IBLP's homeschooling empire grows, it becomes clear that patriarchal, abusive authority is at the core of Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar's power.
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  3. S1 E3 - Under Authority
    June 1, 2023
    47min
    16+
    Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar grow their shared vision into an international empire on the backs of young people. Unpaid labor, abuse, and threats of retaliation build, until Gothard is finally cut down inside of his own organization. But the roots he put down are now spreading everywhere...
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  4. S1 E4 - Arrows Activated
    June 1, 2023
    36min
    16+
    Despite Gothard's demise and Josh Duggars disturbing new crimes, the movement goes on. Fundamentalists have consolidated political power nationwide to reshape society in their own image.
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Flashing lightsviolencefoul languagesexual content
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Directors
Julia Willoughby NasonOlivia Crist
Producers
Michael GasparroBlye Pagon FaustCori Shepherd SternJody McVeigh-SchultzJulia Willoughby NasonOlivia Crist
Cast
Jill Duggar
Studio
Amazon Studios
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