A disturbing new docuseries brings to light the crimes and lies behind a group supposedly devoted to self-improvement
If you’ve heard of Nxivm in the last couple of years, it was probably because of shocking, salacious headlines – sex cult, starvation diets, initials branded on women’s crotches, “master slaves” organized by the former Smallville actor Allison Mack. The extent of the group’s abuse, as exposed in court, a New York Times exposé and several memoirs, was indeed galling and nauseating, but the most horrifying details overshadowed a confusing, chameleonic and far more deceptive road to ruin. As documented in The Vow, a nine-part HBO series which follows former members as they reckon with their participation in the group and attempt to destroy it, the path to involvement in Nxivm – which billed itself as an ethical training program under the “vanguard” leadership of Keith Raniere – was far more insidious and seemingly innocuous than one might assume.
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