The series' title is drawn from the Bill Callahan song 'Drover', which is featured prominently in the final episode.

The title also echoes a comment made by Jane Stork (known as 'Ma Shanti Bhadra') at the beginning of the second episode, describing her first impression of the ranch as 'just so wild, so rugged, but vast—really wild country'.

The series won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 98% approval rating based on 46 critical reviews, with an average score of 8.1 out of 10.

An article in The New Republic by local Oregon activist Win McCormack criticized the series for omitting critical information about sexual assault of women and children and a possible plot to unleash an AIDS epidemic among the Rajneesh followers.

The Osho International Foundation responded to the docuseries by claiming it failed to reveal the 'real story', asserting the Oregon events were part of a U.S. government conspiracy against Osho's vision.

The show's original score was composed by Brocker Way and released as an album via Western Vinyl Records in September 2018.

In January 2019, Priyanka Chopra announced she would star as Ma Anand Sheela in a planned Amazon Studios film adaptation titled 'Sheela', written by Nick Yarborough and set to be directed by Barry Levinson, though as of 2026 the film had not been produced.

In 2019, the parody series Documentary Now! released a two-part episode titled 'Batsh*t Valley' spoofing Wild Wild Country, featuring Owen Wilson and Michael Keaton.

Netflix later produced a related documentary, Searching for Sheela, following Ma Anand Sheela on her first trip home to India in over 30 years, which premiered on April 22, 2021.