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Sins of Our Mother

★ 7.0 10K votes 2022–2022 1 seasons · 3 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 8/10Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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"A chilling descent into belief, family, and denial"

This true-crime docuseries digs into a mother at the center of a shocking missing-children case, tracing how her religious beliefs and relationships spiraled into tragedy. Told through interviews with family, investigators, and journalists, it moves at a brisk, binge-friendly clip across just a few episodes. The tone is somber and unsettling rather than sensational, more interested in understanding how someone slides into extremism than in shock value. It carries itself on the sheer strangeness and horror of the real events, and on candid testimony from people who watched it unfold up close.

Watch it for

the unnervingly candid interviews that trace how ordinary faith curdled into something monstrous.

Maybe skip if

you find true-crime retellings of child endangerment too distressing to sit through.

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All Seasons

Limited Series2022
7.195332h 19m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1The 144,0006.9
33550 min
2Dark Spirits7.2
31050 min
3A Mother Knows7.1
30839 min

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Cast

Colby Ryan Self - Lori Vallow's Son
Janis Cox Self - Lori Vallow's Mother
Kelsee Ryan Self - Colby Ryan's Wife
Justin Lum Self - Investigative Reporter
April Raymond Self - Lori Vallow's Former Friend
Annie Cushing Self - Lori Vallow's Ex Sister-in-Law
Vaisia Itaaehau Self - Tylee's Friend
John Matthias Self - Forensic Psychologist
Julie Rowe Self - Chad Daybell's Former Friend
Barry Cox Self - Lori Vallow's Father

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