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This film manages to take a global extinction event and make it entirely about the struggle of one American family.

Compelling but ultimately feels rather self-serving. The notion of India Oxenberg's victimhood is belaboured, which is not surprising given that she is the producer of the series. While she does have an interesting story to tell, at times she comes across as disingenuous and playing the part of Victim-with-a-Capital-V. In the final instalment, her complicity in the cult - including her role in the sex trafficking of other victims - is even framed as a sort of moral virtue, with several interviewees pushing the agenda that "this can happen to absolutely anyone", and even that Oxenberg was involved due to (rather than in spite of) her intelligence and altruism. Her outright instruction to viewers that she is not to be judged, and her repeated self-absolution, become grating by the end, as do the endless stream of flattering photographs of her, and montages of her exercise, health and beauty routines. A more nuanced, less one-sided view would have enhanced what is otherwise a gripping and well-crafted look at a modern cult.