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The series was created by brothers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, who also created the 2018 miniseries. [6] In February 2023, the series was retitled Waco: The Aftermath and would instead premiere on Showtime on April 16, 2023.
- Vernon Howell, Aka David Koresh
- Lois Roden
- Gary Noesner
- Angela Graham
- Dan Cogdell
- Judge Walter Smith
- Clive Doyle
- Gordon Novel
- Timothy Mcveigh
Waco (2018) featured Taylor Kitsch as the 35-year-old Koresh, but The Aftermath introduces a younger version of the Branch Davidian leader, played by Keean Johnson (The Ultimate Playlist of Noise). In 1981, 22-year-old Vernon Howell arrived at Mount Carmel after he was expelled from the Seventh-day Adventist Church for attempting to take the pastor...
Successionstar J. Smith-Cameron makes a guest appearance as Lois Roden, who assumed control of the Branch Davidians following the death of her husband, Benjamin Roden, the group's founder, in 1978. Roden believed that the Holy Spirit is a female entity, a teaching she shared in sermons and in her magazine, Shekinah. She served as president of the s...
Michael Shannon reprises his role as FBI hostage negotiator Gary Noesner, who played a key role in facilitating the release of 35 people, including 21 children, throughout the 51-day siege. While Noesner is depicted as the hero of Paramount Network's Waco, he was only present for the first half of the standoff, as other members of the FBI and the A...
Woke star Sasheer Zamata embraces her dramatic side as ATF Agent Angela Graham, a major player in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. In the months leading up to the bombing — which occurred on April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the Waco fire — Graham recruited Carol Howe (Abbey Lee, Florida Man) to work as an undercover informant in ...
A Houston defense attorney with decades of experience under his belt, Dan Cogdell, played by Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete), represented 11 Branch Davidians in their 1994 criminal trial. The surviving members were charged with murdering four federal officers in the initial February 28 shootout, as well as various weapons and conspiracy charges, but ...
Waco: The Aftermath suggests that Cogdell's biggest enemy in the courtroom wasn't prosecutor Bill Johnston (Michael Cassidy) — it was U.S. District judge Walter S. Smith Jr., played by David Costabile (Billions). The show puts Smith's alleged biases against the Branch Davidians on full display: Costabile's character denies Cogdell's request to ban ...
Of the 11 Branch Davidians on trial, The Aftermath focuses specifically on four: Clive Doyle (John Hoogenakker, Dopesick), an Australian national who became Koresh's first follower; Livingstone Fagan (Michael Luwoye, Emancipation), a British citizen who met Koresh abroad and moved to Waco to study underneath him; Ruth Riddle (Kali Rocha, Man With a...
In the immediate aftermath of Waco, conspiracy theories emerged about the federal government's involvement in the tragedy — and many of them can be traced back to Gordon Novel, played by NCIS and Veep star Gary Cole. A private investigator who claimed to have CIA connections, Novel made a name for himself in the 1960s thanks to a public feud with L...
It's impossible to discuss the Waco siege without acknowledging its influence on domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh (Alex Breaux, When They See Us), who, along with Terry Nichols, perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. 168 people, including 19 children, were killed and 680 others were injured in the bla...
Waco: The Aftermath: Created by Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle. With Michael Shannon, Giovanni Ribisi, Keean Johnson, Abbey Lee. Five-part drama series portraying the searing aftermath of the disastrous Waco standoff at the Branch Davidian compound - an event that galvanized American militia movements and helped radicalize Timothy McVeigh and ...
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Apr 27, 2023 · The original series starred Taylor Kitsch as the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and Michael Shannon as Gary Noesner, an FBI hostage negotiator. Michael reprises his role as Noesner in this new...
Apr 14, 2023 · Created by series directors Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle (“No Escape,” “ As Above, So Below ”), “Waco: The Aftermath” wants to provide audiences with more juicy history of all things Waco while being aware that nothing can match the intensity of its previously dramatized siege.
Mar 24, 2023 · The show starred Taylor Kitsch as the cult leader and is based on the memoirs of a survivor, David Thibodeau (Rory Culkin), and FBI negotiator Gary Noesner (Michael Shannon.) Now, this year,...
May 14, 2023 · Waco: The Aftermath is an American television miniseries, developed by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, that premiered on April 16, 2023, on SHOWTIME.
