Hot Picks: Escaping Utopia

April 5, 2024: | Broadcast | ‘As a contemporary cult story, this is unlike anything I have ever seen’ Distributor Fifth SeasonProducer Warner Bros International Television Production New ZealandLength 3 x 60 minutesBroadcaster TVNZ (New Zealand) Into the thriving sub-genre of documentaries about cults…

Escaping Utopia reveals ‘a whole other level of what the hell’ to Gloriavale

March 27, 2024: | The Spinoff | Anke Richter | The new docuseries reveals shocking new information about the global expansion of the cult – which somehow still has charitable status in New…

Escaping Utopia part 2: ‘She’s not safe here’

March 26, 2024: | Stuff | Amberleigh Jack | RECAP: Before opening credits even begin to roll, part two of the new Gloriavale documentary hits with a brutal insight into lives within of the South Island…

Review: Escaping Utopia shines a new light on the true darkness of Gloriavale

March 25, 2024: | The Spinoff | Tara Ward | TVNZ’s new documentary series about leaving the West Coast religious community isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a necessary one. This is an…

Escaping Utopia, gripping, brave and stranger than fiction

March 24, 2024: | Stuff | Amberleigh Jack | RECAP: It’s all too easy to look at any situation where someone – especially women – appear oppressed, controlled or abused and think, “why don’t they just…

Escaping Utopia: Gloriavale former member Theophila Pratt on what it’s really like to leave

March 24, 2024: | NZ Herald | Emma Gleason | What’s it like to leave Gloriavale? A new TVNZ documentary, Escaping Utopia, seeks to answer that question and one former member, Theophila Pratt, tells…

Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale

March 23, 2024: | RNZ | Saturday Morning | Around 600 people (including around 350 children) currently live at Gloriavale – a strict Christian community on the West Coast. Listen to the interview Escaping…