The FX Faye Yager Children of the Underground Activist Docuseries Producers

Ted Gesing, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, Kate Barry and Liz Garbus are Film Makers that will be telling the Faye Yager, Children of the Underground Story. The question for Viewers, Film Reviewers and Critics, did the Producers pursue the truth with honor and integrity or is the Children of theUnderground an Activist or One Sided Docuseries?

Here’s what we know from the reviews so far:

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The Story of Faye Yager Podcast

On November 24, 2021, Enn and Matt the creators of the Ripped From the Headlines Podcast released Season 3, Episode 12 which included the story of Faye Yager. Click here to listen to that podcast. Of all the journalists writing stories about Faye Yager since the ’80s, this appears to be one of the most independent and unbiased reporting of Faye and her Children of the Underground Group.

With the August 2022 release of the upcoming 5 Episode Children of the Underground FX / Disney Series the now adult-children and their recovering parents and families from these Children of the Underground Cases are wondering if its producers (Ted Gesing, Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Kate Barry, Gabriela Cowperthwaite) are going to be sensitive and compassionate to them. Or will these producers allow these Underground Moms to be given another opportunity or forum to re-litigate their Family Law Custody Cases like Netflix did for Mia Farrow. Like Moses Farrow, it is doubtful that any of these now adult-children want FX / Disney to to invade their privacy without their consent.

We are also speculating if there is potential defamation and libel liability for FX / Disney in resurrecting any past allegations in these decades old cases.

Children Of The Underground – Really a Docuseries on FX / Disney+

In the aftermath of the Amber Heard False Accuser of the Decade comes FX / Disney+ with an untimely story of other False Accusers, Faye Yager and the Mothers of the Children of the Underground. This 5 Episode Docuseries airing on August 12, 2022 is by Executive Producers Ted Gesing, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Kate Barry and will unlikely show any sympathy toward the emotional abuse inflicted on the victim children and the false allegations against their fathers and extended family members. And like Netflix’s Allen v. Mia Farrow controversial Series, it will provide these false accusers of another opportunity to disparage their former spouse. It is unlikely these Hollywood producers would have been able to comprehend that there was no evidence of abuse in these cases and it has not been until the recent Amber Heard Trial that Women and Mothers can be proven liars, especially in Family Court Custody Cases.

We suspect April Curtis Meyer and her daughter Amanda / Mandy will have appearances on the show and in that case in which there was no proven abuse. That father was given custody in Family Court after April consistently violated court orders including kidnapping her child. She had three different children with three different men and divorced and remarried while in hiding. The Philadelphia Banker’s case will also be injected into the show without respect to the victim families and the adult-children that would more than likely not want their story public — moving on with their lives. But because it makes for good TV and to accompany the family-oriented Disney brand, we will see how these Executive Producers Ted Gesing, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus and Kate Barry respect the privacy of the victims.

It’s clearly wrong to give Faye Yager any further publicity. She was an Interior Designer from West Virginia with no formal Education in Child Protection and should have been found guilty except for the failed efforts of Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Rose Wing and that 1992 jury. 

Finally, we hope these producers are not expecting any Television-Emmy Awards for a show like this in which the victims of these parental kidnappings simply want to move on with their lives. All that being said, Actress Zoe McLellan has been in hiding since 2019 with her son Sebastien and at the very least, maybe this show will bring publicity to that case and help the Los Angeles Police Department find that child and arrest Zoe McLellan.