''Under the Banner of Heaven' is the latest high-profile miniseries that would have been better off as a two-hour feature film,' nschager writes
as the detective charged with solving this heinous crime, it’s a wobbly stab at prestige TV that never manages to get itself on solid footing.’s shakiness is telegraphed from the outset, with whiplash camerawork capturing detective Jeb Pyre playing with his kids on the front lawn. He’s called away from this fun to the home of Brenda Lafferty , who’s been brutally slaughtered and left for dead in her kitchen.
As a devout Mormon with a family of his own—two daughters with wife Rebecca , as well as a dementia-addled mother who lives with them—Pyre is well aware that this case will be of great interest to the LDS Church. His faith is thus always front and center throughout his investigation, especially given that it also creates friction with his non-Mormon Native American partner Bill Taba .
Krakauer’s book paralleled the saga of the Laffertys with the history of Mormonism, and in particular, the violent and polygamous roots of Joseph Smith’s upstart religion.does likewise, but Black and directors David Mackenzie and Courtney Hunt attempt this at random intervals, such that there’s no balance between their past and present action. Moreover, these flashback sequences appear and disappear without any proper contextualization, making them feel arbitrary and sketchy.
It doesn’t take much digging by Pyre and Taba to unearth a treasure trove of holy crazy. As Allen and others recount, the Laffertys were a true-believer clan run by an authoritarian father who demanded total adherence to scripture—and, in particular, to the Mormon beliefs that women be subservient housewives with no agency.
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