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The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story
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TV DNA
How The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Tension.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Follows the Andrea Yates case, exploring how a rogue street preacher's fire-and-brimstone teachings allegedly brought the vulnerable Texas mother under his control, leading to the drowning of her five children in 2001.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Chris TrentProducer
- Frankie NewtonProducer
- Meredith RussellProducer
- Julian P. HobbsProducer
- Lorna ThomasExecutive Producer
- Elli HakamiProducer
Direction
- Julian P. HobbsDirector
- Elli HakamiDirector
Cinematography
- Claudia RaschkeDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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