“Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets,” Prime Video’s limited docuseries exploring reality television mega-family The Duggars and the organization behind them, features one Alabama man’s story shedding more light on the phenomenon taking over the streaming world.

The series explores the Duggar family, best known for the TLC reality series “19 Kids and Counting,” chronicling Josh Duggar’s conviction for knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography, and the family’s ties to the Institute in Basic Life Principles and its controversial leader Bill Gothard. The show also investigates the influence of Christian youth organizations, including Generation Joshua.

“As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril,” the Prime Video description says. Watch the trailer in the video above.

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In the docuseries, several ex-IBLP survivors come forward to reveal the abusive practices that kept them in a living nightmare, including Walker County’s Chad Harris.

Harris first appears during the opening moments of the show’s premiere, a crash course in Duggar family history, its rise to fame via the TLC reality series and the scandals that ultimately resulted in a documentary like “Shiny Happy People.”

“So much of the focus has been specifically on the Duggars and not on the institute itself,” Harris tells filmmakers during the closing moments of the premiere, teasing a deeper dive into the history and culture of IBLP in subsequent episodes.

“People look at Josh Duggar, and they see a monster,” one interviewee says, while another follows with “But…monsters are created.”

During the second episode, while having his long hair combed before his formal interview, Harris laughs while saying, “At this point, I’ve pretty much burned every bridge in my family just by being here, but whatever.”

Wearing a black dress shirt and red tie, the bearded Harris talks about being homeschooled as a child in the rural South. “My parents lived in the backwoods of Walker County, Alabama,” he tells the filmmakers. “There were very few options for them. You either worked in a coal mine, you worked at a steel mill, or you just starved.

“When my dad had the opportunity to become a pastor, especially in a movement that was supposed to stand up in the last days — well, yes, of course he went for it. I mean, it beats working in a steel mill.”

Harris and other ex-IBLP interviewees go into detail about Gothard’s homeschool curriculum Advanced Training Institute (ATI), as well as the organization using methods instill fear into its youngest members. Harris discusses the physical and emotional abuses he suffered while growing up. “They believed in physical punishment for nearly everything,” he tells filmmakers during the second episode. “It was a fear-based tactic, and it was very effective.

“In my family, my mom was my primary abuser. She would scream at us, she would threaten us, she would beat us mercilessly. At one point, she beat me for an entire hour in a church bathroom in an effort to ‘break my will,’ as she said. A family friend happened to be there when the incident occurred, and she said, ‘Oh yes, and the whole time I was saying please stop hurting that sweet boy.’ And mom said, ‘Yes, but I had to break his will.’ This was treated as a funny family story. Everybody laughed except me.”

Harris chronicles his own IBLP experience via his TikTok account archradish, growing his platform to more than 28,000 followers. His profile says he was “raised among Shiny Happy People” and he “escaped to tell about it.” Harris posted a TikTok reaction to the show’s premiere from an undisclosed location. He said he was “completely blown away.”

“I think it was a wonderful … just everything I could have asked for in the documentary, they did it. So to the crew and the producers and the directors who worked on this thing, I personally want to say thank you for listening because for so long, many of us have been talking on this platform and so many others, and we haven’t felt like we’ve been listened to. But now we’re here, now this has happened, and it is … I cannot describe just how amazing it is that our stories are out there, and you made it happen, so thank you.”

He also spoke to “fellow survivors” who shared their stories about IBLP, noting it was “an honor” to share the screen with them. “That, I feel, set the record straight on what we’ve been saying for years. This cult is dangerous. And now everyone knows.”

The limited series also allows Jill Duggar Dillard to go on the record with her own story and be joined by family and close family friends who witnessed what went on behind the scenes firsthand.

The show, which premiered on June 2, is currently streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video. Directed by Olivia Crist and Julia Willoughby Nason, it has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.