Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)

Genre

crime, drama, mystery

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 391 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a brutal murder of a woman and her baby. He finds the crime is tied to a fundamentalist splinter group within a major religious community.

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What happens

Under the Banner of Heaven is an American true crime drama television miniseries created by Dustin Lance Black, based on the 2003 non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer about the case of brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty who killed their sister-in-law and her young daughter in 1984. The series premiered on April 28, 2022, on FX on Hulu. Andrew Garfield and Gil Birmingham star as two detectives investigating a brutal murder and its connections to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS Church or informally as Mormons. The series earned positive reviews, particularly for the performances of Garfield and Wyatt Russell. However, it also reignited controversy about depictions of the LDS Church, and while the victims' relatives and police involved in the case acknowledged that it was not meant to be a documentary series, they did note areas where the fictionalized series deviated from the specific facts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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