The Family

A man travels to his late mother's hometown to find the father he never knew, only to discover Comala is a ghost town in the most literal sense — populated by the dead, still narrating the tyranny of the cacique who once ruled it. Adapted from Juan Rulfo's novel.

Why it’s here: Punk in blurring the line between the living and the dead until power and guilt outlast the man who held them — Pedro Páramo's tyranny haunts Comala long after his death. Pedagogical in showing how one man's greed can hollow out an entire town's future.

A secretive Christian organization with deep ties to Washington power — senators, presidents, dictators — investigated through journalist Jeff Sharlet's years embedded inside it, adapted from his own nonfiction books.

Why it’s here: Sharlet spent years embedded inside the group he's now the on-camera guide through — the same access problem every insider investigation has, here made visible rather than hidden. Worth knowing the series carries a real, documented bias critique (that it understates historical Democratic involvement with the group) alongside its reporting; watch it as an argument, not a neutral record.