‘The Vow’ Gets Second Installment at HBO
With an organization as twisted as Nxivm, there are always more stories to tell.Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will deliver a second installment of their docuseries “The Vow,” coming to HBO in 2021, the premium cabler announced Friday.Back in September, Noujaim teased this possibility with Variety, saying, “We reached out to everybody involved — many people, on all sides of the story — and we are continuing to film.”The new installment, being called “The Vow Part Two, will be set against the backdrop of Nxivm head Keith Raniere’s federal trial. Raniere started Nxivm as a multi-level marketing company, selling courses on self-improvement and self-empowerment. As the years went on, subgroups within the larger organization began to pop up, including Jness, a women’s only group, and Dos, a master-slave subgroup that came with sexual abuse and physical branding of its female members or “slaves.”Raniere was convicted of ...