Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
- 2023

1 Season
Average Episode Runtime - 45 Mins

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Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
- 2023

1 Season
Average Episode Runtime - 45 Mins

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Overview

A limited docuseries exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv’s favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them: The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.

Created by

Julia Willoughby Nason , Olivia Crist

Genre

Documentary

Original Language

English

Spoken Language

English

Series cast

Jill Dillard
Jill Dillard
Herself
Derick Dillard
Derick Dillard
Himself
Amy King
Amy King
Herself
Dillon King
Dillon King
Himself

Trailers and videos

Seasons

Miniseries

Season overview

The shiny facade of America's favorite giant family, and the ministry that guided their conservative values, is shattered, revealing a troubling reality underneath.
As IBLP's homeschooling empire grows, it becomes clear that patriarchal, abusive authority is at the core of Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar's power.
Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar grow their shared vision into an international empire on the backs of young people. Unpaid labor, abuse, and threats of retaliation build, until Gothard is finally cut down inside of his own organization. But the roots he put down are now spreading everywhere...
Despite Gothard's demise and Josh Duggars disturbing new crimes, the movement goes on. Fundamentalists have consolidated political power nationwide to reshape society in their own image.