The Vow returns with one of NXIVM’s infamous leaders at its center in new trailer
Keith Raniere's right-hand woman, Nancy Salzman, makes her case in the trailer for the second season of the HBO docuseries

The docuseries we binge-watched during the height of coronavirus quarantine don’t necessarily hold up outside of it. Just look at Tiger King, the second season of which held nowhere near the appeal it did when the world was locked down. Even so, The Vow (HBO’s documentary series about the NXIVM pyramid-scheme-slash-sex-cult) is trying its luck with a second season, and this time it has a secret weapon: Nancy Salzman.
Salzman loomed large over the first season as cult leader Keith Raniere’s right-hand woman, someone who enabled Raniere’s worst offenses in the name of his so-called “genius.” The second season trailer opens with narration from one of Salzman’s many NXIVM training videos, an eerily prescient inquiry: “What would happen if each of my secrets came out? The upside of letting go of your secrets is that you will have a lot more freedom. The downside of your secrets coming out is punishment.”