It's hard to not anticipate the worst while watching "Sins of Our Mother." The latest true-crime installation from Netflix revisits the 2020 case surrounding Lori Vallow Daybell — nicknamed the "doomsday mom" — who is presently awaiting trial for the deaths of her two children.
Over the course of three episodes, the series explores Lori's grim descent into religious extremism, which progressed gradually via her devotion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Under the influence of her fifth husband Chad Guy Daybell — a former gravedigger turned apocalyptic novelist and self-declared prophet — Lori believed her 17-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were so-called "dark" individuals and followers of Satan.
