Wacky

I love a good documentary. Over the weekend, I watched the second part of the docu-series, The Vow, on the Nxvim cult. After watching the first part some time ago, I lost interest in learning more about the cult because it just seemed so ridiculous. But I got sucked back into it over the weekend. I still find the whole premise of the group largely ridiculous and don't understand why so many people (mainly women) just fell all over themselves to be close to the group's leader. The guy oftenlooked like he hadn't bathed in weeks and he didn't seem to really "do" anything over than give wacky group chats and screw a lot of women on dirty sheets. (Ugh.) The dirty sheets thing came up more than once in the series, but I digress.) Why anyone would latch on to this guy and his group is a mystery to me, yet so many did. I know I'm late to the party in watching The Vow, but I didn't have an HBO subscription until earlier this year, so I could only catch that stuff if I got a free HBO weekend via my cable provider and then I had to cram and watch as much as I could before they cut me off.

HBO (now Max, unfortunately) has shown some great documentaries and docu-series over the years. I've watched the Heaven's Gate series, the Last Call series, There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane, The Lost Children series (about the Atlanta child murders from the 1980s), the Jinx, and many more that were really great. 

This has nothing to do with documentaries, but I really hope we can retire the phrase "witch hunt" soon. I'm tired of Donny T and others using this phrase to describe prosecution or charges they disagree with. Also, sometimes a witch hunt turns uncovers an actual witch!