![]() ![]() ![]() “Waco: The Aftermath” was originally meant to debut on Paramount+, but will now air on Showtime beginning April 16. It also provides a broader context for the escalation of the American militia movement, which foreshadows the infamous attacks of the Oklahoma City bombing and the storming of the U.S. Per the official logline, the five-episode limited series “focuses on the fallout of the Waco disaster: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh. News of the new castings comes just ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 51-day standoff at Mt. Smith Cameron, John Hoogenakker, Keean Johnson, and Abbey Lee. The group joins previously announced cast members Michael Shannon, John Leguizamo, Giovanni Ribisi, David Costabile, J. The new cast members for the followup to Paramount Networks’ “Waco” include: Shea Whigham, who will reprise the role of Mitch Decker, the FBI agent who managed the situation leading up the siege Annika Marks, who will reprise the role of Kathy Schroeder, one of the surviving Branch Davidians who was also called upon to testify Alex Breaux, who will play Timothy McVeigh Michael Cassidy, who will play Bill Johnston, the lead prosecutor in the trial of the Branch Davidians Gary Cole, who will play Gordon Novel, described as an “intense private investigator ” Nicholas Kolev, who will play Paul Fatta, another one of the Davidians on trial after the Waco siege Michael Luwoye, who will play Livingstone Fagan, described as “an extremely bright biblical scholar and one of the surviving Branch Davidians on trial ” Kali Rocha, who will play Ruth Riddle, one of the Branch Davidian survivors facing trial and the possibility of life in jail Michael Vincent Berry, who will play George Roden, one of the early leaders of the Davidian sect and Sasheer Zamata, who will play Angie Graham, described as “a smart, experienced ATF agent.” It is more of a holiday romance and the well-intentioned performances lead nowhere.The “ Waco: The Aftermath” series at Showtime has added 10 new cast members, Variety has learned. But there is no real commitment to this idea in the drama. As Stefan says, it is “Stunde Null, Year Zero, everything can start again”. She is almost a darker version of the chatty, insensitive Dolly Messiter in Brief Encounter (1946).Īs a love story, the film is supposed to derive a kind of energy from the devastation itself, a sense that with everything flattened, things can be reimagined. Mrs Burnham loves to gossip, though with an edge of shrewdness and spite. Rachel is in the habit of taking tea with an expat acquaintance in Hamburg, Susan Burnham ( Kate Phillips), the wife of a boorish intelligence officer, played by Martin Compston. ![]() Freda meets up with Albert ( Jannik Schümann), a menacing young man from the town, and it is eerily like Liesl, the 16-going-on-17-year-old widower’s daughter in The Sound of Music, having her covert assignations with telegram boy Rolf, with his sinister loyalties. It is reminiscent of Suite Française – though not quite as glib as that other prestigious period production about postwar love and guilt, The Reader.Īnd other parts of the film seem borrowed, too. But, even if it did look plausible, there is something too easy in the way the horrors and guilt of the second world war are slathered in this tragi-romantic syrup. The pair’s first kiss is lacking in the despairing passion that it is supposed to radiate. The emotional flashpoints of this secret love are frankly forced and unconvincing. And these lonely souls are drawn together. And so, with an awful inevitability, Lewis is away all day neglecting his wife’s emotional needs, and leaving her to brood over the beautiful Steinway in the house. In theory, Stefan and Freda should be packed off to a camp, but Lewis has the grace to be embarrassed about this, and allows Stefan and Freda to live in the attic, with Stefan permitted to do humble work in the garden. The Morgans have the right to requisition un-bombed German houses as their living quarters and they are assigned the beautiful home of Stefan Lubert (Skarsgård), sensitive architect, widower and non-party-member and his difficult teenage daughter Freda (Flora Thiemann). With him, Lewis has brought his beautiful, emotionally brittle wife Rachel (Knightley) who is trying her best to confront the secret pain in their marriage, about which Lewis is in denial. He is there to administer the postwar settlement, to keep order among the fractious civilian population – traumatised by the devastating British bombing – and to supervise the “denazification” process, the purpose of which is to root out unrepentant Hitlerites. The year is 1946 and Colonel Lewis Morgan (Clarke) is part of the British military posting in Hamburg, a decent man but emotionally cold. ![]()
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