Documentary series that leave audiences feeling rattled and disrupted are having a minute on Netflix. Of the top-performing television series on the banner at the minute, for instance, 2 fall under this classification– among them, American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murderswe blogged about in a different post previously today, while the second has actually simply been launched. It’s The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnappinga three-part examination into an academy that declared to utilize leisure actives and treatment to assist distressed teenagers.
In truth, it ran more like a cult and left teenagers who had actually gone through its program reeling from physical and psychological abuse.
“What do you do if your kid gets captured in a cycle of self-destructive and even harmful habits?” a television host asks throughout a news program that’s displayed in the series. “Some desperate moms and dads are having their kids abducted, taken versus their will, to a habits adjustment program.”
That program was hosted at a school with an innocuous-sounding name, The Academy at Ivy Ridge, in the town of Ogdensburg, New York. To arrive, trainees like Katherine Kubler– the filmmaker behind The Program — were put in handcuffs and driven there versus their will, making the procedure feel comparable to a kidnapping. The concept was that, essentially, trainees would lose their liberties as quickly as they stepped through the door; no talking, no going outside, no interacting with the outdoors world.
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A complex system of benefits guaranteed the trainees could not leave up until they turned 18. Kubler, who experienced widespread abuse and corporal penalty, lasted 15 months before her daddy came and pulled her out of the school. The injury from that experience withstands.
