![]() Each episode of The Clearing opens with a disclaimer that it's a work of fiction inspired by fact, but the details of cult life seen in the three episodes given to critics, however chilling, don't exaggerate the claims of the cult's survivors. Pomare, this eight-part miniseries draws on the real-life Australian cult known as The Family, a well-funded organization led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a yoga teacher-turned-spiritualist whose compound was raided in 1987, its escapees telling stories of abuse, mind control, and initiation rites involving massive doses of LSD, all under the direction of Hamilton-Byrne, who claimed to be their mother (which she was able to do in part because of Australia's then lax adoption laws). Soon Sara's hair will look the same and she'll have a new name to go with it: Asha.Īdapted from the 2019 novel In the Clearing by J.P. Like the uniforms worn by all the residents of Sara's new home, the hair is part of the de rigueur look of a group known as the Kindred. But the look has a less-than-extraterrestrial origin. They're both dead ringers for the spooky kids from Village of the Damned, as are all the other children at the compound where Sara is taken against her will. ![]() While talking to Amy, Sara's is pulled into an unremarkable white van driven by an older boy who shares Amy's long, flowing peroxide-blonde hair. By the episode's end, she'll be fighting to keep that identity. She even spells her name out, lest her new acquaintance get it wrong: S-A-R-A. When eight-year-old Sara ( Lily LaTorre) meets a girl named Amy ( Julia Savage) on the side of a rural Australian road in the first full scene of The Clearing, Sara knows exactly who she is. ![]() Julia Savage, The Clearing Narelle Portanier/Hulu
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