Shadowland: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Inspired by reporting in The Atlantic magazine, award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across America to embed with subjects who have rejected mainstream narratives, including the shocking real-time stories of a beloved rural Pennsylvania pizza shop owner facing twenty years in prison for her role in the January 6th riots, an anti-vaccine activist pushing a dangerous fake cure for Covid-19, and a mother divorcing her husband because she fears his beliefs put their children's lives in danger. 

From this intimate viewpoint, Shadowland, a deeply immersive six-part docu-series, reveals how conspiracy theories have moved from the margins to the mainstream, exploring how people come to their beliefs, and what makes these theories so alluring. The series is a shocking wakeup call about the dangerous influence of conspiracy thinking on the functioning of our democracy, as families, friends, and the nation are increasingly being torn apart.

Series details

• Title: Shadowland
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2022-09-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-09-21
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Peacock
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 54 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 64238
• IMDb ID: tt13476324
• TVDB ID: 424000

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2022-09-21; final listed air date 2022-09-21; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Shadowland on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.