Shiny Happy People

About Shiny Happy People

A limited docuseries exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv’s favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them: The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.

Shiny Happy People is a documentary series that airs on Prime Video. Its themes are cult, reality show, reality TV, and sexual assault.

Since June 2023 it has reached 2 seasons and 7 episodes. It is still in production. Seasons run to about 4 episodes.

Amy King, Dillon King, and Jeff Sharlet lead the cast.

In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads. Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, and 13 Reasons Why make useful companions to Shiny Happy People, all filed under child sexual abuse and pedophile. It carries a TV-14 rating.