Shiny Happy People Renewed for a Second Season
Prime Video has announced the renewal of the critically acclaimed docuseries Shiny Happy People. The new season is set to premiere on July 23, 2025.
Season two, titled Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War, moves beyond IBLP and delves headfirst into the Evangelical teen pop culture that exploded across the U.S. in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as the larger forces focused on harnessing their earnest faith for far-reaching influence.
The second season is executive produced by 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.
The new season of the series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios (Sausage Party: Foodtopia, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf), Story Force Entertainment, and Chick Entertainment.
