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Waco - Season 1
In February 1993, the ATF conducts a raid on a small religious community near Waco, Texas, beginning the 51-day 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and David Koresh’s spiritual sect, The Branch Davidians, that resulted in a deadly fire.
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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.
