Review: 'Under the Banner of Heaven' can be tough to watch, but the miniseries about Utah's Lafferty murders is worth it.
Wyatt Russell as Dan Lafferty, Chloe Pirrie as Matilda Lafferty, and Daisy Edgar Jones as Brenda Lafferty in "Under the Banner of Heaven."It isn’t altogether easy to watch the seven-part series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” for multiple reasons.
Writer/executive producer/showrunner Dustin Lance Black struggled to bring “Banner” to the screen for more than a decade. In 2011, it was announced that he would write and fellow Oscar winner Ron Howard would direct a theatrical movie based on Jon Krakauer’s book, but he could never figure it out because there was just too much story to tell.
His obsession with getting “Under the Banner of Heaven” made resulted in a miniseries that shines on many levels, from the script to the performances to the direction to the onscreen look and feel. Black’s creation of a fictionalized lead detective, Jeb Pyre , is genius. Pyre not only gives him a linchpin around which to build the narrative, but a focal point for the conflicts — both internal and external — that arise when modern-day members look back at church history that’s not generally talked about. Or thoroughly examined.
Make no mistake about it, Black’s point of view is represented in the miniseries overall and in Pyre in particular. But raising questions about the church is not the same as attacking it.“Under the Banner of Heaven” is filled with fine performances. In addition to Garfield, the cast includes Daisy Edgar-Jones as Brenda , Sam Worthington as Ron Lafferty and Wyatt Russell as Dan Lafferty.
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