‘SNL’: Netflix Unveils New True Crime Docuseries ‘I Was A Bridesmaid’

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Saturday Night Live viewers tonight got a first look at I Was a Bridesmaid, the newest true crime docuseries bound for Netflix.

The show “from the people that brought you Keep Sweet, Wild Wild Country and the NXIVM documentary” is billed in SNL‘s trailer as “a harrowing new cult story.” The trailer begins with commentary from former bridesmaids Sarah (Heidi Gardner), Brittany (Ego Nwodim) and Naomi (Quinta Brunson), who open up about traumatic experiences associated with the wedding of a character played by Chloe Fineman. “It all started with a box on my doorstep…” says Sarah. “…And a note with a question,” recalls Brittany. “I just got this feeling that it wasn’t the kind of question you could say no to,” adds Naomi.

The question, of course, as others including Riley (Sarah Sherman) and Vanessa (Punkie Johnson) also recall, was: “Will you be my bridesmaid?” Documentary expert Dr.

Greg Lawrence (James Austen Johnson) of the Department of Cult Studies at UCLA then appears to note that “each year, more than six million women fall into this kind of cult.