In "Drink the Kool-Aid," the show intersperses real footage from these cults along with staged reenactments featuring Peters. The makeup artists who transformed him into Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite proved why they earned that outstanding prosthetics Emmy, and the convincing way Peters nails the man's mannerisms is wild to watch.
For the noncult experts out there, Applewhite believed he was Jesus reincarnate and that he had to leave Earth and contact extraterrestrials to ascend to the next level of existence. In 1997, after amassing a large group of followers, he convinced his cult that they needed to board a spacecraft hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
He, along with 38 followers, then committed suicide by eating poisoned applesauce and asphyxiating themselves by tying plastic bags around their heads.
