The rise and shocking fall of Hillsong has been unpacked in multiple documentaries and may, in part, be inspiration for Stan’s addictively lurid new drama, Prosper, which plays a lot like a thriller, with sharp, lacerating edges and a brittle atmosphere.
The show’s press kit doesn’t mention the Australian megachurch, which began in New South Wales and expanded to various countries around the world including the US, but the resemblance seems at least as arguable as it was between Scientology and Paul Thomas Anderson’s film The Master.
