Not always a show comes along that makes you forget that you’re watching it because your job entails watching it to write a recap afterward, but when it does, you become engrossed in the show, forgetting your duties for a while. Showtime’s Waco: Aftermath is such a show where you stay so invested in the story that after a while, you start hating the characters who are portrayed as evil while rooting for the good guys. However, Waco: Aftermath was not a work of fiction but a dramatization of the trial that happened after the tragedy at Mt. Carmel in Waco, Texas. What you’ll read below is an assortment of my opinions after finishing the finale of Waco: Aftermath, and there’s a chance that you may not agree with some of the opinions I’ve shared. However, you can be the judge of the rights or...
- 5/13/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle’s Waco: The Aftermath on Showtime released its third episode this weekend, and it’s quickly becoming one of those shows that we wait all week for. With gritty storytelling and fantastic acting, the accurate retelling of the events that followed the tragedy at Waco, Texas, in 1993 has grabbed all the viewers’ attention. Two separate stories are presented together, with one portion looking at the defense trial of the survivors of the tragedy, while the other looks at Michael Shannon’s character trying to unearth a terrorist plot. FBI negotiator Gary Noesner figures out that a terrorist plot is underway by the Nazis and tries his best to dig up clues before another tragedy happens. Here’s what happened this week:
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Livingstone Fagan, The Man
In 1994, in the San Antonio prison in Texas, Waco survivor Livingstone Fagan was deep in Bible study...
Spoilers Ahead
Livingstone Fagan, The Man
In 1994, in the San Antonio prison in Texas, Waco survivor Livingstone Fagan was deep in Bible study...
- 4/30/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Thirty years after the deadly standoff between federal law enforcement and the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, even the most fundamental facts of the tragedy remain contested. Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms insists David Koresh and his followers later set fire to their compound, killing another 48 adults and 28 children in an act of mass suicide. The surviving Branch Davidians maintain that the FBI was the aggressor, and the deadly fire resulted from the Atf’s decision to deploy stun grenades and tear gas.
The decades since have created only tighter knots of recrimination. But you might not get that impression from watching “Waco,” the 2018 Paramount Network miniseries about the nearly eight-week standoff and that fatal inferno. In the hands of brothers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, who wrote...
The decades since have created only tighter knots of recrimination. But you might not get that impression from watching “Waco,” the 2018 Paramount Network miniseries about the nearly eight-week standoff and that fatal inferno. In the hands of brothers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, who wrote...
- 4/12/2023
- by Joshua Alston
- Variety Film + TV
Waco: The Aftermath, a sequel series to Paramount Network’s 2018 miniseries, has rounded out its cast, finding its Timothy McVeigh and adding the likes of Gary Cole.
The series, which had originally been planned for Paramount+ but will now debut on Showtime on April 14, stars Michael Shannon and focuses on the fallout of the Waco disaster.
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Alex Breaux, who starred in Apple series See, plays Timothy McVeigh, while Shea Whigham and Annika Marks reprise their roles from the original series and Gary Cole joins.
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Whigham returns as Mitch Decker, an FBI agent and colleague to Shannon’s hostage negotiator Gary Noesner, who managed the situation at Waco...
The series, which had originally been planned for Paramount+ but will now debut on Showtime on April 14, stars Michael Shannon and focuses on the fallout of the Waco disaster.
Related Story Paramount+ ‘Waco’ Sequel Series To Premiere On Showtime Related Story Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joins Ewan McGregor In UK Drama Series 'A Gentleman In Moscow' Related Story Paramount Global Shuttering UK Non-Scripted Production Division
Alex Breaux, who starred in Apple series See, plays Timothy McVeigh, while Shea Whigham and Annika Marks reprise their roles from the original series and Gary Cole joins.
Related: 2022-23 Showtime Pilots & Series Orders
Whigham returns as Mitch Decker, an FBI agent and colleague to Shannon’s hostage negotiator Gary Noesner, who managed the situation at Waco...
- 2/27/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Waco Survivors Still Believe Cult's Teachings 25 Years After Deadly Siege: 'I Should Have Died, Too’
Twenty five years after the little-known Branch Davidian cult leapt into the headlines after a deadly siege on its compound outside of Waco, Texas, sect survivors leave little doubt in a new documentary that they were willing to die for their leader, David Koresh.
“I think the FBI never tried to understand our beliefs,” surviving Branch Davidian Kat Schroeder, who was one of Koresh’s numerous wives and the only female member to be charged and imprisoned after the siege, says in an exclusive clip from the A&E documentary special Waco: Madman or Messiah.
The run-up to the siege and...
“I think the FBI never tried to understand our beliefs,” surviving Branch Davidian Kat Schroeder, who was one of Koresh’s numerous wives and the only female member to be charged and imprisoned after the siege, says in an exclusive clip from the A&E documentary special Waco: Madman or Messiah.
The run-up to the siege and...
- 1/24/2018
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
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