Waco

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Season 1
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 48 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 48
  3. Negative: 12 out of 48
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  1. RTurlmann
    Feb 27, 2018
    10
    Kitsch is amazing, and the story is very compelling - especially as the events depicted actually occurred. One of the best shows I've seen in a long time.
  2. jgzeger
    Mar 15, 2018
    9
    A powerful and disturbing account of the events at Waco, Texas with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. It shook me to my core, and had me searching for answers to what really happened there.
  3. WhiskeyStories
    Jun 9, 2018
    7
    Waco is really good, I'm surprised there's no real buzz around it. I've never heard of what went down there in 1993 so I'm really glad there's a show to tell this tragic story. The first three episodes are genuinely great. The mainly objective storytelling and the clashing of multiple ideologies with a quite profound (religious) morality element surprised me. It all had a strong TrueWaco is really good, I'm surprised there's no real buzz around it. I've never heard of what went down there in 1993 so I'm really glad there's a show to tell this tragic story. The first three episodes are genuinely great. The mainly objective storytelling and the clashing of multiple ideologies with a quite profound (religious) morality element surprised me. It all had a strong True Detective vibe. After a phenomenally thrilling third episode things kinda go south though. The last half does away with the intriguing intellectual themes and becomes a straighforward retelling of the events (gradually turning more and more subjective as well) making it far less engaging or interesting. Still I'd highly recommend Waco, the true story is stranger than fiction, the main cast is absolutely fantastic (the best performance I've ever seen from Kitsch) and those first three episodes, man are they f#cking great.… Expand
  4. geewah
    Jan 10, 2021
    7
    A more than solid telling of some of the darkest days in America's recent history. Kitsch is great as cult leader Koresh.

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Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Jan 30, 2018
    60
    It’s in the interactions between the Branch Davidians and the federal government that the Dowdles best capture the sense of an easily avoidable yet nonetheless inevitable catastrophe. Where they struggle is in conveying how it would feel to live a life so tightly entombed in cataclysm that manipulation and abuse become simple facts of life, not dark horrors to overcome.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 24, 2018
    50
    Skimming the treatment Koresh’s manipulative dark side in Waco, a story that puts the humanity of the Branch Davidians and that of Koresh at its forefront feels ... weird. And this is but one of several niggling oversights in a story that begs for a new consideration.
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  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Jan 24, 2018
    67
    No one is totally innocent in the Waco siege, including many of his followers, but the “Waco” series seems overly eager to vindicate Koresh. And that taints an otherwise well-told story.
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