The show tries to give its viewers a very in-depth look at how this horrendous "help group" operated with cult-like standards, breaking down every one of their rituals, explained to the viewers by people who were NXIVMs most ardent followers. Towards the beginning, we see the cult from the eyes of former followers and how these various ritualistic methods adopted by NXIVM helped them. Slowly and gradually they unravel the nightmarish, predatory, and egregious underlying truth of what the group was actually up to and how it literally ruined the lives of hundreds of women who were brainwashed and pushed into a system which was supposedly designed to bring the best out of them but in turn destroyed their lives for good. The docu-series, though it captures the truth and explains the true motive of the cult, it relies way too heavily on deep-seeded visuals as fillers, which can be distorting at times. And the biggest problem I have with the series is that it spends so much time telling its viewers on how the cult it helped its followers rather than potraying the cult as the villain from the very beginning and hence fails at its narrative because everything was all over the place.