THE FAMILY: The Wolf King

Name: THE FAMILY: The Wolf King
Item: THE FAMILY: The Wolf King
Author: Tess Farrand

Season 1 Episode 5

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong Christian, biblical worldview, despite some strong humanist, Anti-Christian elements, filmmakers go into a small men’s prayer group and a man preaches the Good Word directly to the crew and filmmakers as well as his men in the group, his beliefs line up directly with the Bible and calls out men who attend the National Prayer Breakfast because they are people that God loves, and so he loves them too, repentance and surrender to Jesus are stressed, baptism is depicted, Jesus pictured carrying the cross in archival video footage, but filmmakers are blatantly skeptical that Christian conservatives can be impartial to others and care for anyone other than people in positions of power, and the episode has some leftist, politically correct attacks on President Trump and his movement that play like propaganda rather than a factual examination;

Foul Language:

Two obscenities;

Violence:

No violence;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

Upper male nudity shown in paintings;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Greed and government corruption when episode implies that officials have not been placed in government by a democratic process but by internal influence and connections.

Episodes: Season Overview

Number	Date	Title	Content
1.1	8/9/2019	Part One: Submersion	-4
1.2	8/9/2019	Part Two: Chosen	-3
1.3	8/9/2019	Part Three: New World Order	-4
1.4	8/9/2019	Part Four: Dictators, Murderers & Thieves	-4
1.5	8/9/2019	The Wolf King	-3

More Detail:

In “The Wolf King,” the final episode of Netflix’s documentary series THE FAMILY, the filmmakers visit a small men’s prayer group in Seattle, to record the beliefs of other Christians who attend the National Prayer Breakfast. Ironically, the group asks pointed questions to the interviewer about his own convictions and his heart for diversity that have him eating his words. Then, however, the episode proceeds to rip apart President Trump, his actions and his mistakes from a leftist perspective before ending on a Christian note. Members of the Fellowship, aka the Family, admit, however, the group’s been too secretive in the past in the light of the leader, Doug Coe’s, death in 2017.

Unlike previous episodes, “The Wolf King” has a strong Christian, biblical worldview, despite its Anti-Christian attacks on the Fellowship. Eventually, the limited series portrays what the Fellowship hopes for the future while also showing footage from earlier in the series to demonstrate the group’s hypocrisy. Despite the final episode’s positive Christian content, MOVIEGUIDE® finds its bashing of Christians and its politically correct leftist propaganda, to be excessive and unacceptable.