Miniseries · Netflix
Trust Me: The False Prophet
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Trust Me: The False Prophet actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Trust Me: The False Prophet reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
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.
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
In this true-crime documentary, a cult expert and filmmaker infiltrate a polygamist sect to expose a self-proclaimed prophet and bring him to justice.
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
- Jeff SkollExecutive Producer
- Jamila EphronProducer
- Dorin Razam-GrunfeldExecutive Producer
- Miura KiteExecutive Producer
- Tolga KatasExecutive Producer
- Zachary HerrmannExecutive Producer
Direction
- Rachel DretzinDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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