Cult

Cult

2013
Cult
Cult

Cult

6.1 | TV-14 | en | Drama

After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP13  Executive Producer Steven Rae
Jul. 12,2013
Executive Producer Steven Rae

Jeff promises to help Skye find answers about her missing father; Nate talks Jeff into solving the mystery once and for all.

EP12  1987
Jul. 12,2013
1987

Stuart tasks Nate with deciphering the copy of Kellian's manuscript but Cameron remains skeptical that Nate can uncover the answers about the Moon Hill parents. Nate reveals to Stuart that 32 followers disappeared from Moon Hill, and gives Stuart a phone number that he found repeated in the manuscript's code. Jeff and Skye remain in hiding from the True Believers, now that Stuart knows that they know his true identity. Meanwhile, on the inside show, Billy has tracked Henry, the killer of Kelly and Meadow's parents, and holds him captive. Kelly begins to unravel emotionally as she wrestles with unresolved feeling about her parents' murders.

EP11  Flip the Script
Jul. 05,2013
Flip the Script

Jeff and Skye question Dr. Kimble's teaching assistant, Allegra, and the three discover that Kimble's lab has been ransacked. Allegra identifies Phillip Kellian's manuscript as being almost identical to one of Kimble's. Skye discovers that Stuart opened a production company on the Cult studio lot, so they break into Stuart's offices and discover a surveillance room with hidden camera feeds. On the show, Kelly worries about Andy's growing fear of Meadow. Kelly accompanies Meadow to therapy, and it is revealed that they witnessed their own parents' murder as young girls.

EP10  The Prophecy of St. Clare
Jul. 05,2013
The Prophecy of St. Clare

On the set of the television show “Cult,” Skye consoles Edie MacDonald, the actress who plays Meadow, after she confesses to being spooked by a pair of figurines she recognizes from her childhood. Jeff and Skye pay a visit to Edie’s mother. Peter continues to spy on Skye. Meanwhile, on the television show, Billy nears his breaking point.

EP9  Off to See the Wizard
Jun. 28,2013
Off to See the Wizard

Jeff and Skye learn about a new initiates meeting of the True Believers. Skye plans to infiltrate the meeting with Jeff following close behind. While Skye and her fellow newbie’s are being driven to the meeting location, Jeff unknowingly follows a decoy vehicle. Meanwhile, on the television show, Kelly suspects that Billy’s followers kidnapped Andy.

EP8  The Devil You Know
Jun. 28,2013
The Devil You Know

Jeff and Skye struggle to find evidence against Sakelik to use as leverage to gain information on Nate. Stuart invites Roger to a weekend getaway at his Santa Barbara estate. Skye has lunch with her mother and the two discuss the past. Meanwhile, on the television show, Kelly strikes a deal with Billy to get her sister Meadow back.

EP7  Suffer the Children
Apr. 05,2013
Suffer the Children

E.J. slips Jeff a copy of Sakelik’s police personnel file which reveals that Sakelik was taken into custody by Child Protective Services 25 years ago after being found with other abandoned children at a house in Arrowhead. Jeff and Skye locate the house and question the owner, Annabelle. Sakelik tracks Jeff and Skye to the house and they barely escape with their lives. Stuart continues to befriend Roger. Meanwhile, on the television show, Kelly finds a lock of Meadow’s hair in the trunk of Billy’s car.

EP6  The Good Fight
Mar. 29,2013
The Good Fight

Skye collapses the morning after the “Cult” fan party, suffering a serious reaction to the drug she was slipped. The doctors urge Jeff to locate a sample of the drug so they can find a way to reverse its effects in order to save Skye’s life. Detective Sakelik arrives at the hospital but refuses to help. Jeff suspects that the drug might be hidden at her place so he takes matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, inside Skye’s hallucinogenic state, Billy, Kelly and Skye’s father Quentin encourage Skye to give up and stop searching for the truth.

EP5  The Kiss
Mar. 22,2013
The Kiss

Jeff receives news that one of Nate’s friends might be planning something at an upcoming “Cult” fan costume party, so Jeff and Skye attend the party dressed as Billy and Kelly. At the party, Skye’s drink is spiked with a hallucinogenic drug similar to a drug used on the television show “Cult.” Sakelik warns Jeff that he might be in over his head. Also, at the party, Roger meets a mysterious stranger named Stuart. Meanwhile, on the television show, Kelly marries Billy in a flashback scene.

EP4  Get with the Program
Mar. 15,2013
Get with the Program

Jeff tells Skye about Ama, a woman he met on a “Cult” fan site who claims that her husband is missing after becoming obsessed with the show. When they finally meet her, Jeff notices that she has a “Cult” notebook that looks eerily like Nate’s notebook. Ama introduces Jeff and Skye to a man who finds and deprograms cult members. EJ locates an IP address on a disk that could bring Jeff and Skye one step closer to finding Nate. Meanwhile, on the television show, Kelly finds Professor Patrick, the man who deprogrammed her, at Billy’s compound.

EP3  Being Billy
Mar. 08,2013
Being Billy

Jeff finds a surprise visitor in Nate’s apartment who tells him about a dangerous on-campus game that Nate had been hosting known as "Being Billy," which involves role-playing scenes from past "Cult" episodes. Jeff and Skye follow clues that might explain the next scene the players will try to recreate. Meanwhile, E.J. (Stacy Farber) searches Nate’s laptop and finds that he’s been active online and sent a cryptic email to a hidden recipient list. On the television show, Kelly confronts Billy.

EP2  In the Blood
Feb. 26,2013
In the Blood

Jeff enlists tech-savvy E.J. to help in his search for his brother Nate. Skye finally reveals to Jeff that she took the researcher job on “Cult” to learn more about Steven Rae. Meanwhile, at the production office, associate producer Peter Grey brushes off Skye’s concerns that some of the “Cult” fans believe there are hidden messages embedded in the show. On the television show, Kelly and Paz discover a body buried vertically, and Kelly believes that this might be a message from Billy.

EP1  You're Next
Feb. 19,2013
You're Next

Investigative journalist Jeff Sefton has learned to laugh off his younger brother Nate's relentless string of obsessions, especially his latest rant that a hit TV show intends to harm him. However, when his brother mysteriously disappears, Jeff takes Nate's paranoia seriously, and in the process uncovers the dark underworld of the TV series "Cult" and its rabid fans, who are obsessed with the show's charismatic cult leader, Billy Grimm. As the show's gruesome plot twists begin to play out in the real world, Jeff enlists the help of a young research assistant Skye in a race to save Nate and unravel the mystery behind the TV series whose hardcore fans would literally kill to see what happens next...

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6.1 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Mystery | More Info
Released: 2013-02-19 | Released Producted By: CBS Studios , Warner Bros. Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.

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Cast

Alona Tal , Robert Knepper , Jessica Lucas

Director

Lindsay Sturman

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Reviews

pontram Cult was a solid conspiracy show, which had the potential to be great. It could be great in all manners. But instead of taking the risk and create a mystic dark humored allegory about TV, Fandom and hysteria during a time where nobody can imagine where all those artificially created hypes are socially and emotionally leading people to, instead of trying to follow the potential the show's own initial plot could lead itself to, the creators decided to let the wave of the show's first arrival fade out very unspectacular.In fact, Cult could have been so much groundbreaking, controversial, intelligent and funny in a very dark way, that it is a real shame, and also a bit unbelievable, that it truly hadn't any of those advantages at all.I understand that the creators did try something like that, but had to handle demands for compatibility with a bigger audience. That did not go so well, because the great mystery, in time, doesn't seem that great mystery anyway, and the big conspiracy is not such a big conspiracy that keeps us interested, like in the classic X-files.With this, the story flows gently from one small anchor point to the next, with never reaching nail-biting levels, and never being surprising, but as a solid standard riddle solving case elongated over 12 episodes, which could have taken four or five to be concluded. And yes, everything is very serious and any humor that could save the sinking ship is absent.The two parallel stories of Cult and "Cult in Cult" never snapped, to use a term of Cult itself, and while it is constantly told, that they do snap for the reality of the show, we were not able to believe it, they did not snap for us. We were simply not able to follow all those hidden hints.So the show, basically imaginative, interesting and promising, drowned more or less, while fresh thought in the beginning, from lack of further imagination and plot development. It seems like the authors had lost interest in their child after they realized that they had taken the wrong path with it, and so did the audience then.The only continuously bright spot is Robert Kneppers part in the fictional Cult Series. While it doesn't bring the show much further, it is always a fresh breeze. In fact, he is, more ore less, the main actor of both the fictional and the "real" Cult show, and he is very sardonically gifted. For him alone, the show is worth watching.
Kasper Hviid This is a TV-series called CULT which is about a mysterious TV-series which is also called CULT. A recursive TV-series, how clever is that? Actually, the series a bit too clever for its own good. It is cleverness without a cause. The writer just want to flash his cleverness in the viewers face.At first, the series self-reference is just awesome, and sends your mind spinning. Even if the blatant exposure of cleverness is ever so pretentious, I have to admit that the cleverness is indeed very, very clever, hence my rating. But the gimmick eventually wears of, leaving behind a very bland show.I love X-FILES, KOLCHAK, TWIN PEAKS and DOCTOR WHO. These series delivers characters that I wants to spend my time with. But CULT, like the series LOST, don't have anyone that I care about. The entire cast could die, it wouldn't bother me; the reason I watch those shows is not because they are entertaining, but that they keep my curiosity alive: The promise of this awesome, sparkling revelation.In other words, CULT and LOST is all about the destination, not the ride itself. It is a bit like religion, which also promises that you'll get you reward when it is all over.I just did a Google search to find out how LOST ends; if the ride itself is bland, why not take a shortcut?
bulldoza The lengths to which one should go to avoid this show should not be underestimated. I would rather be buried alive upside down than be subjected to the unending sub-par story line and acting.Wonder if someone is a bad guy, oh you'll know. They look at you with an evil grimace and immediately kidnap someone to prove it. Every 'clue' is found with unbelievable ease, while flipping through pages of nonsense and the scribbles of a mad man the protagonist, Jeff, stumbles upon every consecutive clue in order in the search for his missing brother.Everything technical or technology based is unrealistic and leads to such bizarre and preposterous conclusions in the pot-hole filled story line with fragmented dialogue and appalling one liners.Do not waste your time and watch this drivel. Having said that, I am now watching the second episode, it is so bad it has become a form of entertainment.
kstaylor-829-882972 I'll admit my bias right now: I am a huge fan of Robert Knepper. Since Prison Break, I have tried to find anything with his name in the credits. There's just something about his acting style that pulls you in and makes you forget that you're watching a show. Without looking into the plot line (which is essentially a paradoxical loop: a show within a show attempting to create a cult within a cult among its illusionary audience aka the other characters and its real audience aka us), the show gets high ratings for Robert Knepper's Billy. The way that he turns towards the screen and talks about how everyone is his family draws you towards him as if you were a lost soul needing to belong. Thankfully, he's just an actor and at the end of the day you're not visiting fanboards trying to find out where his compound lies. If you watch this show for one thing, watch it for Robert Knepper's performance!