"Shiny Happy People" Renewed for Season Two on Prime Video

The critically acclaimed docuseries, which unveiled the truth behind the Duggar Family and IBLP, moves forward with a Season Two renewal, premiering July 23

CULVER CITY, CA - June 18, 2025 - Today, Prime Video announced the renewal of the critically acclaimed docuseries Shiny Happy People. Season Two, which will be called Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, moves on from IBLP and dives headfirst into the Evangelical teen pop culture that exploded across the U.S. in the 90's and 00's, and the larger forces focused on harnessing their earnest faith for far-reaching influence.

The new season - which premieres on July 23 - comes from Executive Producers Blye Faust and Cori Shepherd, the award-winning team behind Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets which was the #1 most-viewed documentary series on Prime Video.

Directed by the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmakers Nicole Newnham and Cori Shepherd, Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War focuses on the controversial organization Teen Mania - once America's largest youth ministry, attracting millions through their wildly popular stadium shows known as "Acquire the Fire." The series bursts with peak Millennial nostalgia and cringe, featuring colossal stadiums filled with teens enraptured by religious rock anthems, inspired to swear purity oaths and eagerly embark by the thousands on culturally questionable global missions. But beneath the wholesome youth group illusion lies a darker undercurrent: a high-pressure pipeline of brutal spiritual bootcamps, surreal role-playing scenarios, and relentless psychological control - all under the command of a charismatic leader with endlessly expanding ambitions.

Faust, Shepherd, and Newnham serve as executive producers for the new season alongside Lauren Andrade, Olivia Crist, and Eric Cook. Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Story Force Entertainment, and Chick Entertainment.

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About Story Force Entertainment

Story Force Entertainment, led by Oscar- and Emmy-winning producers Blye Faust and Cori Shepherd, focuses on elevated premium entertainment for scripted and nonfiction film, television, and audio.

Past projects include the Amazon docuseries smash hits LuLaRich and Shiny Happy People, with the highly anticipated second season of the latter coming this summer. Other unscripted projects include feature documentary Zurawski v Texas, produced in partnership with Hidden Light with executive producers Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton that premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival; The Grab, a 2024 Magnolia Pictures/Participant Media feature documentary that is nominated for four 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards; Bending the Arc, a 2020 Netflix feature documentary; Belly of the Beast, a 2020 Emmy award-winning and Peabody-nominated documentary released by PBS/Independent Lens; Oscar-nominated HBO documentary Open Heart; and Collisions, an Emmy Award winner that premiered at Sundance.

Scripted projects include 2015 feature film Spotlight, which was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 Academy Awards, and Warm Bodies, a global box office hit feature film for Lionsgate.

Additional projects include Dr. Death: Bad Magic, produced in partnership with Wondery as the fourth season of the incredibly popular podcast series; and the 2023 Loeb Award finalist podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton, produced in partnership with The Wall Street Journal.

About Chick Entertainment

Founded by award-winning filmmakers Olivia Crist and Lauren Andrade, Chick Entertainment produces bold and disruptive content. The company's docu-series release - Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets was a Critics Choice Award nominated series and a smash hit for Amazon Studios. The series was produced by Andrade, directed and executive produced by Crist and was the largest docu-series that Amazon has ever had.

Crist and Andrade have amassed an impressive slate of producing credits across scripted, unscripted and branded work. Markedly, producing Vanity Fair's branded docuseries What is Cinema featuring Halle Berry, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Rian Johnson,The Daniels, Sarah Polley and Ruben Östlund. Andrade notably earned a co-producer credit on the 2021 romantic comedy The Long Weekend which was acquired by Sony's Stage 6 Films. Crist and Andrade have co-producer credits on the Gotham Award-nominated film Swallow. The pair are currently in post production on an explosive docu-series with Investigation Discovery.