#cult

#cult

Principal Dort and "Gideon" (not his real name but, as previously stated, I am done learning new names here) met at some sleazy Tiki spot in Florida. Dort wanted to start a cult - he doesn't even bother pretending that's not the endgame - but thinks he doesn't have the right face to attract followers. He saw Gideon in The Crucible and knew he'd found his man. OMG, John Proctor is the villain!

"When you think about the billions at stake and the radical transformation of lives across the world because of the eccentric vision of this group, how much more cult-y does it have to be for this to be a cult? Not much," says Harvard chaplain.

Lottie Matthews, a plane crash survivor, emerges as a cult leader in Season 2, trying to unite her fellow survivors for a deadly ritual.

Christopher Brain, who led the progressive Nine O-Clock Service (NOS) in Sheffield, is accused of dominating and sexually assaulting numerous women from his congregation.

"The looser it was, the more it scraped [the skin], so it was just easier to tie it really tight and then double- or treble-knot it."