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To help you through withdrawals tonight, take our poll on Leah Remini’s Season Two so far

 Leah Remini’s A&E show Scientology and the Aftermath is taking a well-deserved post-Emmys two-week breather after pushing hard to get the first six episodes on the air. It will resume with the next new episode on October []

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Tonight, Paul Haggis calls out Scientology’s celebs: ‘Damn them for being purposely blind’

 We’re of two minds about Scientology’s glittering celebrities. On the one hand, there’s no question that Scientology’s pursuit of celebrated actors and other artists is the major reason such a small group (the church claims millions, but the real figure is in the tens of thousands) gets such major press, and why the subject draws []

Tonight on ‘Leah Remini’: Two witnesses detail David Miscavige’s ruthless Scientology takeover

[John Brousseau]

If L. Ron Hubbard is responsible for the millions of words that spell out every aspect of Scientology, what, exactly, qualified David Miscavige to take over as church leader after Hubbard died in []

HURRICANE LEAH: ‘The defenses are crumbling. Scientology in Los Angeles is dying.’

 We’re still marveling at the juxtaposition — that the same weekend Leah Remini took home an Emmy award for her A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath, a major hurricane was barreling down on the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida. []

Supporting Leah Remini and her show — what’s the risk for viewers who expose Scientology?

 There’s a law firm in Manhattan that struggled this week to cope after it came under a bizarre attack. []

‘Leah Remini’ show prompting more ‘ranch kids’ to come forward with agonizing family drama

[Clarissa and Ethan Adams]

We continue to be amazed at the effect Leah Remini is producing with her A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath. As her second season progresses, we’re seeing more and more people speak up about their experiences in []

Tomorrow on ‘Leah Remini’: You’re going to learn what it’s like on Scientology’s ‘Bridge’

[Bruce Hines]

After three gut-wrenching victim-centered episodes of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath‘s second season, A&E is shaking things up by running a “special” episode that we think is not only well timed, but a long time coming.

Tomorrow night, you will begin your training as []

As Leah Remini’s second season hammers away, Scientology is losing its mind

 It’s probably safe to say that the Church of Scientology is now in the grips of a complete meltdown. []

Tomorrow’s ‘Leah Remini’: When Scientology destroys a family, it burns it to the ground

 How far will a Scientologist parent go to punish their kids if they reject the church? That’s one of the questions we were left with after watching Tuesday night’s episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, the third episode of Leah’s second []

Tonight on ‘Aftermath’: Suicide in Scientology, where sympathy and compassion are outlawed

 Tonight’s episode of Scientology and the Aftermath packed quite a punch for us, even though we were already pretty familiar with both stories that Leah Remini and Mike Rinder tell in this, the second installment of the second []