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Waco - Season 1
Waco will explore the true life details leading up to and chronicling the siege between the FBI, the ATF and the religious sect, told from several perspectives of those involved. The series is based on two biographies: A Place Called Waco, by Branch Davidian survivor David Thibodeau, and Stalling For Time: My Life As An FBI Hostage Negotiator, written by the FBI's Special Agent in Charge of Negotiations Gary Noesner.
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
20 November 1981, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK
24 March 1972, Rockland, Maine, USA
3 December 1955, La Jolla, California, USA
16 November 1976, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 reenactments of the government assault on the compound, and the aggressive response by the cult, are well-staged.
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
Taylor Kitsch disappears effortlessly into the role.
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
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 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."
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
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 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.
