Waco: American Apocalypse

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 22, 2023
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Richard Roeper
    Mar 21, 2023
    88
    In addition to some impressive computer-generated imagery, never-before-seen footage of the FBI negotiation units during the standoff and previously unreleased news footage, “Waco: American Apocalypse” features a number of sobering and insightful, in-depth interviews.
  2. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Mar 23, 2023
    80
    It is a thorough, balanced, immersive and eerily atmospheric examination of a horrific stand-off in which 86 people, including 25 children, died.
  3. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 22, 2023
    80
    The answers aren’t always clear or what one might expect, but as such documentaries go, the effect is a frequently riveting view of an “American Apocalypse,” then and now.
  5. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Mar 22, 2023
    80
    The interviewees speak fluently and in vivid detail, while never-seen-before footage from the time brings those events sharply into focus.
  6. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Mar 22, 2023
    70
    Waco: American Apocalypse sticks mostly to the nuts and bolts of the Waco siege, making for an effective narrative about an incident that was one of 1993’s top stories.
  7. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Chris Vognar
    Mar 22, 2023
    70
    Through interviews with all parties and never-before-seen footage, he wants to explore the facts, through all the fog of war and vehement disagreement. And he succeeds more often than not.
  8. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Mar 21, 2023
    70
    There’s a bit more narration than explanation in this three-part documentary series, though a deep dive into the personal enriches the storytelling. ... "Waco" suffers from a few missing details. ... At the same time, it features people very close to the subject being very open about what happened, even if, when all is said and done, they don't understand it now any better than they did in 1993.