Waco Miniseries On Netflix

I recently finished watching the miniseries, Waco on Netflix.  I remember watching the startling first raid on TV, when ATF agents tried to seize the compound. I did not even know, at the time, that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms had such a force.  

The six part series does a good job of humanizing, David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, a radical Christian sect, that was an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.   The group lead by Koresh is holed up in a compound near Waco, Texas.  

Taylor Kitsch plays a very convincing David Koresh, a soft voiced  leader of the group.  He is a charismatic singing dancing leader, who, on the outside, seems to only want to add to his group.  On the inside, he was some radical ideas that exceed the laws of decency.  

Michael Shannon is Gary Noesner, a sympathetic agent, whose negotiation skills lead to a peaceful surrender in previous standoff at Ruby Ridge.

I have always had a fondness for biopics and found myself drawn in by this well acted series.  Below is Koresh with new recruit David Thibodeau.