A new Paramount+ docuseries is putting a spotlight on a Southern California drug rehabilitation organization that slowly turned into a dangerous and violent cult. "Born In Synanon," the new series, ...

The drug rehabilitation program in California had started out as a nonprofit run by a former alcoholic who preached tough love and won acclaim for his approach to treating addicts. Over the years, it ...

Synanon was my home, the place where I was born. While I remember it as a utopia — originally created as a drug and alcohol rehabilitation community in Santa Monica, California, in 1958 — by 1975, ...

Born In Synanon is a four-part docuseries (now streaming on Paramount+) directed by Geeta Gandbhir that shows Cassidy Arkin, who was born into the Synanon community in 1974, interview various people ...

"There were rules on which Synanon was founded, and those were solid, until they weren't." Another cult story. Max has revealed an official trailer for a fascinating documentary series called The ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

The phrase “not an obvious cult” doesn’t really get thrown around too much. Something either is a cult, or isn’t. And yet .. .there always seems to be some sort of grey area, especially when it comes ...

Logline: Exploring the rise and fall of the Synanon organization — through the eyes of the members who lived it — from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later ...

From books and docuseries to podcasts and big-screen thrillers, true-crime tales are everywhere. Much of it is thinly researched retreads of well-worn cases and subjects that feel exploitative in the ...