Under the Banner of Heaven ambitiously grapples with the struggle to attain personal agency in the crushing course of history.
Crafting a season around fake news and alternative truth is all for nothing if characters lose sight of what’s real.
By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.
The film demonstrates the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
Private Romeo feels more like a side project from the producers of Glee than some kind of novel queering of Shakespeare’s text.
Here is a tragedy told with absolutely no momentum.