I’ve never heard the story of the Jim Jones cult told from the inside quite like this. It’s great story telling, in that you feel like you’re going through it all with them. It’s so intimate and unsensational. It really brings across the way the cult must have really provided you with something soul-comforting and unnamable… something that you were always vaguely craving but weren’t quite able to put into words. Says one of the interview subjects of what it felt like afterwards, “we had holes in our heart.” With revelations like that, the decades of cultural connotation are stripped away to actually allow the stories of Jonestown survivors to sound new again… and unexpectedly universal, too. The two pieces in the show speak nicely to each other and together they leave you feeling like you’ve been given a new perspective on cults… one that isn’t all 70’s bleached out film stock creepy, but is actually human.