Netflix's latest docuseries 'Wild Wild Country' depicts a controversial 'sex cult,' and it has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

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"Wild Wild Country."

• Critics are praising Netflix's new original series "Wild Wild Country," a six-part docuseries about the scandals of a "sex cult" led by the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
• The series traces the group's controversial attempts to construct a utopian city in Wasco County, Oregon, in the early 1980s.
• The Rajneeshees came into conflict with the local population and went on to commit the largest bioterror attack in US history.
• "Wild Wild Country" currently stands at a 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Critics are praising Netflix's new original series "Wild Wild Country," a six-part docuseries about the scandals of a "crazy sex cult" in the early 1980s.

The series focuses on the controversy surrounding the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who in 1981 brought his followers to construct a utopian city in Wasco County, Oregon, and came into conflict with local ranchers.

After the group was denied permits to construct their city, Rajneesh's follower, Ma Anand Sheela, led an attempt to take over the county's municipal legislature by busing in thousands of homeless people to vote Rajneeshee members into state government positions.

The group also committed the largest bioterror attack in US history when it contaminated 10 local salad bars with salmonella in an attempt to depress voter turnout among Oregonians.

"Wild Wild Country," directed by Chapman and Maclain Way, traces the controversial history of Rajneesh's cult through archival footage and new interviews, and it currently stands at a 100% "Fresh" rating on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

The Hollywood Reporter's Dan Fienberg praised the docuseries for the way it represents a "slice of partially forgotten history in which real life just keeps getting more and more outlandish and implausible."

Writing for RogerEbert.com, Nick Allen described the series as possessing a "profound, mesmerizing power itself" in "handling this story so intelligently and by opening its heart to a very complicated idea of good and evil."

Watch a trailer for the series below, and find the show on Netflix.

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