"Under the Banner of Heaven"
Jan. 5th, 2024 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherWatched between .5 and 2 episodes of many things, bounced off of them:
Atlanta
The Good Wife
The Guardian
Six Feet Under
Trevor Noah "Where was I" (this was very bad and I stopped at 15 minutes).
I watched all of Under the Banner of Heaven and found it captivating. It's a crime / thriller, limited series of 7 (long) episodes. The story follows a double murder in 1984 in a Mormon community, I believe a suburb of Salt Lake City. Andrew Garfield plays Jeb Pyre, a detective investigating the case. The show is created by Dustin Lance Black and feels pointed, implicating the LDS church as complicit in that they created conditions for this violent crime to happen. As Jeb begins to realize this, he begins to question his own faith.
I like Andrew Garfield's big brown eyes and bushy eyebrows and I end up watching some less than great stuff just because he's in it. This show ended up being kind of good though. It's still copaganda, and it was too long, but the Mormon stuff was interesting, creepy, thought-provoking.
Atlanta
The Good Wife
The Guardian
Six Feet Under
Trevor Noah "Where was I" (this was very bad and I stopped at 15 minutes).
I watched all of Under the Banner of Heaven and found it captivating. It's a crime / thriller, limited series of 7 (long) episodes. The story follows a double murder in 1984 in a Mormon community, I believe a suburb of Salt Lake City. Andrew Garfield plays Jeb Pyre, a detective investigating the case. The show is created by Dustin Lance Black and feels pointed, implicating the LDS church as complicit in that they created conditions for this violent crime to happen. As Jeb begins to realize this, he begins to question his own faith.
I like Andrew Garfield's big brown eyes and bushy eyebrows and I end up watching some less than great stuff just because he's in it. This show ended up being kind of good though. It's still copaganda, and it was too long, but the Mormon stuff was interesting, creepy, thought-provoking.
