In four documentary-style episodes, chronicled is the life and crimes of former TV preacher Tony Alamo (Noah Forrest), who with his wife Susan (Amanda Dill) wielded unseemly power with a code of silence over their followers; and all the while themselves turning into multimillionaires. When his wife died in 1982, Tony's leadership turns tyrannical; beating and having sex with children. He took multiple wives under the age of 15. Alamo was convicted of sex trafficking and was sentenced to 175 years in prison, where he died in 2017 at age 82.
5 Reviews
A compelling tale, but clumsily told
paul2001sw-121 April 2024
Most religious cults ultimately boil down to a simple story of the founder's desire for money, control, and sex, and the story of Susan and Tony Alamo is no different. In some senses Susan seems to have been the more interesting figure; in the begining, she was the charistmatic (and scary) figure supposedly blessed by God; husband Tony, by contrast, was just the low-rent hustler who took over when she died, eventually deteriorating into an archetypal dirty old man. The complete absence of the idealism that, however misplaced, you often find in such tales makes this a one-dimensional series, and the production doesn't help, with plenty of weak reconstructions, intrustive music, and witness interviews too full of sound bites. Nonetheless, the story remains as compelling as it is horrific, even if it could have been told with a little more class.
worth watching
tezzahols22 February 2021
episode 2 25 minutes in not a word of dialog.
portentous200031 January 2020
By using dramatic music, clips without dialog to stretch time out you have lost me. I was interested after first episode. as I write this episode 2 is 28 minutes in without one word of dialog. Complete waste of your effort, and everyone's time.!
It's so repetitive
shutterk21 July 2021
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