“This is not the ‘no bad guys’ version of the story at all,” Daniel Fienberg says of the Paramount Network miniseries on the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas. “In one story beat after another, FBI and ATF officials prioritize violence over negotiation, concentrate on public relations over empathy and actively ignore the few contentious agents who plead moderation. And I'm not saying that's incorrect, but let me offer the counter-proposal that maybe there actually were people who made mistakes on both sides?” He adds that “at every point” the show’s sympathies lie with those in the Branch Davidian compound, resulting in an insulation of cult leader David Koresh’s misdeeds, including his marrying and impregnating underage girls.
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TOPICS: Waco, Paramount Network, David Koresh, Taylor Kitsch