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Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath on IMDB
First Aired: November 29th, 2016
Status: Ended
Network: A&E
Summary: Leah Remini, along with high level former Scientology executives and Church members, explores individual accounts from ex-Church members and their families through meetings and interviews with Leah. Each episode features stories from former members whose lives have been affected by the Church's harmful practices, even well after they left the organization.
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Season 3
Episode 0: The Jehovah's Witnesses
Air Date: November 13rd, 2018
Summary: For the very first time, Leah and Mike meet with former members of a different organization - the Jehovah's Witnesses. In this special 2-hour episode, a panel of contributors open up and share their personal stories of growing up in this secretive organization.
Episode 1: Emotional Aftermath
Air Date: November 18th, 2018
Summary: We see Leah, Mike and their closest family members, in ways we’ve never seen before as they share—for the first time—the emotional toll leaving Scientology has taken on them and their families and the challenge of unlearning the systems and practices that were ingrained in them for decades.
Episode 2: Star Witness
Air Date: November 27th, 2018
Summary: The heavily guarded Scientology compound known as Gold Base in Riverside County, California, houses up to 1,000 members of the church's elite inner core; Valerie Haney tells how conditions at the base led her to contemplate suicide.
Episode 3: Spies Like Us
Air Date: December 4th, 2018
Summary: A Florida private investigator school recruits Cierra Westerman to spy on critics of the Church of Scientology; Cierra details how investigators dug through trash, installed tracking devices on cars, and infiltrated the lives of the church's critics.
Episode 4: Unlikely Pairing
Air Date: December 11st, 2018
Summary: Leah and Mike explore the new symbiosis between the Nation of Islam and Scientology.
Episode 5: Where Is Shelly?
Air Date: December 18th, 2018
Summary: After Leah remarked on the absence of church leader David Miscavige’s wife, Shelly, the question set off a chain of events that ultimately led to her leaving Scientology. More than a decade later, Shelly still has not been seen in public.
Episode 6: Ideal Orgs
Air Date: January 1st, 2019
Summary: The church purchases large buildings to use as upgraded church locations, celebrated as Ideal Orgs; the church claims that the new buildings signal the rapid expansion of Scientology, but former members and critics say otherwise.
Episode 7: The Collection Agency
Air Date: January 8th, 2019
Summary: Leah and Mike speak with former Scientologists who share how they were exploited for money for their exclusive membership. Their stories range from those who are thousands of dollars in debt, to those who were left financially and emotionally bankrupt. We'll also hear from a former member of the church whose job it was to solicit money from parishioners by what she describes as "any means necessary."
Episode 8: Gilman Springs Road
Air Date: January 15th, 2019
Summary: In a remote corner of Riverside County, Calif., lies Scientology's International Base, a compound that houses the church's most dedicated members. In this episode, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder, a former occupant of International Base ("Gold Base"), speak with four other former high-ranking residents who reveal their shocking stories behind the locked gates.
Episode 9: Buying a Town
Air Date: January 22nd, 2019
Summary: In 1974, operating under an alias, the Church of Scientology moves into Clearwater, Fla., and proceeds to make the city its spiritual headquarters; in 1977, an FBI raid uncovers the church's secret plans to take over the city.
Episode 10: Buying a Town Part 2
Air Date: January 29th, 2019
Summary: Leah and Mike travel to Clearwater, Florida, spiritual headquarters for the Church of Scientology. Speaking with some of the city’s most prominent Scientology critics, they explore how the controversial 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson marked a turning point in the Church’s history.
Episode 11: Church And State
Air Date: February 5th, 2019
Summary: Leah and Mike speak with Jay Wexler, an expert in constitutional law, to discuss the remarkable story of Scientology’s journey to tax-exempt status. Mike and Leah also talk with Lt. Yulanda Williams, a police officer, about law enforcement’s community engagement strategies.
Episode 12: Waiting for Justice
Air Date: August 26th, 2019
Summary: Filmed for the first time in front of a live studio audience, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder explore stories of how Church of Scientology policies have hindered members from reporting instances of abuse and sexual assault to the authorities.
Episode 13: Waiting for Justice
Air Date: August 26th, 2019
Summary: Filmed for the first time in front of a live studio audience, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder explore stories of how Church of Scientology policies have hindered members from reporting instances of abuse and sexual assault to the authorities. They will speak to a number of ex-Scientologists who share their stories of abuse at the hands of other Scientologists, and describe how these policies are aimed at preventing the alleged crimes from becoming public. The episode will also feature a panel of legal, psychological and law-enforcement experts, who provide insight into the impact Scientology’s practices have had on its former parishioners and advise how they can seek justice and effect change in the future.
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