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Twenty-five years after a shootout and FBI raid left 82 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect and four federal agents dead, a six-part cable series re-examines the siege.
“Waco” portrays the group’s leader David Koresh (played by “Friday Night Lights” star Taylor Kitsch) as a charismatic interpreter of Scripture and an amateur guitarist who also fathered children with multiple wives, including underage girls. Busy film star Michael Shannon plays an FBI negotiator worried about the militarization of his agency, which…