Shiny Happy People (2023)

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

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as Self - Cousin of the Duggars as

as Self - Amy’s Husband as

as Self - Member of the Duggar Family

as Self - Jill’s Husband

as Self - YouTube Creator, Fundie Fridays

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

as Self - Author; Professor, Calvin University

as Self - Pastor, Journalist

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Jim Bob Duggar’s Sister

as Self - Duggar Family Friends

as Self - Duggar Family Friends

Danielle Lindemann

Danielle Lindemann

as Self - Author, ‘True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us’

Lindsey J. Williams

Lindsey J. Williams

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self - Educator & Ex-Quiverfull

Emily Elizabeth Anderson

Emily Elizabeth Anderson

as Self - Ex-IBLP

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Lawyer, Former Joshua Generation Leader

as Self - Christian Influencer

as Self - Christian Influencer

as Self (archive footage)

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Seasons

Season 1

Duggar Family Secrets

Season 2

A Teenage Holy War

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