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Waco - Season 1
Told from several perspectives of those most intimately involved from both sides of the conflict, including surviving Branch Davidians which has never been shared on television before, is surprising in its stark contrast to the media narrative at the time and what is remembered of Waco almost 25 years later.
24 March 1972, Rockland, Maine, USA
16 October 1971, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
21 July 1989, New York City, New York, USA
3 December 1955, La Jolla, California, USA
19 February 1973, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
8 March 1961, Caldwell, New Jersey, USA
January 24, 2018
Despite a fantastic cast, with a particularly outstanding performance by Taylor Kitsch, the miniseries' desire to make Koresh a folk hero is a miscalculation.
January 24, 2018
Kitsch is quite convincing as Koresh. He plays Koresh as genuine, if not saintly, and that laconic Tim Riggins charisma is put to good use, or icky use if you keep waiting for the miniseries to find anything Koresh does problematic.
January 24, 2018
Taylor Kitsch disappears effortlessly into the role.
January 24, 2018
The series does a good job of showing both sides of the story with Michael Shannon playing an FBI hostage negotiator advocating for less-violent means of action.
January 24, 2018
The show creates its own problems in telling this story, especially as it can't seem to handle the scope.
January 24, 2018
The reenactments of the government assault on the compound, and the aggressive response by the cult, are well-staged.
January 24, 2018
We mainly need to look to Kitsch's performance, along with writers John Erick and Drew Dowdle's screenplay ... commanding, but never quite intimidating (or is he?).
January 23, 2018
Waco won't be the first drama to reduce a tragedy to its simplest components, but this doesn't offer much confidence that these are the right components or the only ones.
January 24, 2018
A compelling, tragic tale that allows stars like Kitsch and Shannon to play different, surprising roles, just like the new cable channel that's featuring the show.
January 25, 2018
The only way the government could look any more like buffoons, barbarians, and jackasses in the series is if the ATF and FBI sequences were soundtracked with "Yakety Sax."