Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Paramount Network - formerly Spike TV - kicked off its new sheen/skin/sleeve (while other "Peak TV" upstart networks curbed their original scripted content over the past year) with a new miniseries about the two-month standoff between the FBI, ATF and an ostensibly peaceful religious cult known as the Branch Davidians back in 1993. Sufficed to say, it was a tragedy, and media spectacle, so impactful that ever since it's been referred to simply by the Texas city it happened in the vicinity of - Waco.
The premiere episode of the six-part Waco - featuring a transformed Taylor Kitsch spreading his thespian wings as compound guru David Koresh, along with an all-star cast that can largely resemble a big Boardwalk Empire reunion at times - competently set up the oncoming doom and gloom with a "Let's start things with a brief glimpse of where we're headed" approach, opening with the FBI already on Koresh's doorstep and everyone in a panic about the possibility of violence. From there, the rest was flashbacks to months previous.
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Paramount Network - formerly Spike TV - kicked off its new sheen/skin/sleeve (while other "Peak TV" upstart networks curbed their original scripted content over the past year) with a new miniseries about the two-month standoff between the FBI, ATF and an ostensibly peaceful religious cult known as the Branch Davidians back in 1993. Sufficed to say, it was a tragedy, and media spectacle, so impactful that ever since it's been referred to simply by the Texas city it happened in the vicinity of - Waco.
The premiere episode of the six-part Waco - featuring a transformed Taylor Kitsch spreading his thespian wings as compound guru David Koresh, along with an all-star cast that can largely resemble a big Boardwalk Empire reunion at times - competently set up the oncoming doom and gloom with a "Let's start things with a brief glimpse of where we're headed" approach, opening with the FBI already on Koresh's doorstep and everyone in a panic about the possibility of violence. From there, the rest was flashbacks to months previous.
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