“The Vow” creative team, led by the directors Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, had plenty of raw material to work with. Members of the group appear to have documented nearly every conversation they had with each other and with Raniere during the past two decades, and many Nxivm seminars were also recorded. (Oxenberg’s daughter India was deeply involved in Nxivm — the group attracted quite a few Hollywood folks — and Catherine’s pain and relentless energy are affecting.) Those are the deeper questions that animate “The Vow” and help make it not just engrossing but extraordinarily relevant. In one of the series’s most chilling moments, we see Raniere and Mack chatting at one of the group’s late-night volleyball games.

Source: New York Times August 23, 2020 18:22 UTC