Wonderful character development!

Really Surprised!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

There is only one "problem" with this mini series and im going to start with that so its out of the way.. The problem is i think some viewers will interpret that this show is trying to defend david koresh and his actions... I dont believe this is the case i think by showing a more sane/normal viewpoint of david in the earlier episodes is just trying to humanize his character for the audience. The producers of this series want us, the viewers, to understand the point of view of the victims of waco. The point of view of david thibodeau (in my opinion). Because im assuming the point of view from thibodeau was that koresh was a decent man and "messiah". People who are in a cult are brainwashed and follow whatever the leader says no matter how ridiculous. A lot of the bad reviews on this site complain about how there is an agenda with this show to somehow normalize domestic assault and paint a picture of david koresh as some martyr..But personally i do not believe that was the case based on the previous paragraph. But after about episode 2 we start to see the true facts of the horrible heinous crimes that occurred at the mount carmel center. Episode 3 and episode 6 are pure television gold. If you weren't around back then to witness this atrocity this show will put you in a time machine back to february 28th, 1993. I rarely get emotional when watching a series such as this based on true crime ***SPOILER*** but when melissa benoist's character is stuck under the bus and shea whigham's character cannot get her out...that has got to be one of the saddest/darkest moments i have ever seen on television (especially for a basic cable series). This is a must see mini-series its more than worth the 5+ hours by a long shot.

I absolutely loved this documentary. This isn't what was portrayed to Americans at all. Our stupid government killed these people. 25 children and got off scott free by lying. I am so saddened that these people were treated this way. David Koresh was extravagant but didn't deserve this. The actor who played him was phenomenal.

Only 6 episodes, but with excellent storytelling, great acting. I was thinking at start that there were news in that time about some religious cult in USA, which committed mass suicide, but did not think that this is about that event. It just did not look as that type of sect. I guess, this is not spoiler here, since outcome is well known, what differs is explanation of why it happened, and that's well visible by comments here too. I really don't want to go into who to blame, about Koresh's (alleged) child abusing and similar. He was presented as very disturbed, yet charismatic leader, pretty much insane. I seen Taylor Kitsch only in couple movies so far, and must say that I'm impressed with his performance in this. Other main actors were superb too. There were no needless moments, really. I guess that 6 episodes are right. Will watch this rather again after some time instead all non-imaginary new serials which dominate air this years. Even if this made me sad. Life tells best stories.

I actually went into this show with relatively high expectations. So far I have found much of dialogue laughably bad. Especially in Shannon's case - a couple of times I had to ask myself , if I was missing out on a joke; so overwrought and shallow have been his lines. Shannon is a fine actor, as is Kitsch. But I wonder if the show would have benefited from those two swapping roles. These are all good actors, high standards all around; is it Paramount Network that is responsible for thew writing? US viewing audiences are being dumbed down by clumsy scripts that go for easy triggers and laughs, and put continuity and common sense on the back burner. Take Leguizamo's character e.g., sneaking through the compound with a hand drawn map at elbow length, with a big red X on it; I mean, come on, LOL...