![]() Like Krakauer’s book, the series interweaves the Lafferty family’s story with the often-violent early history of Mormonism and adds in a fictional framing story about Andrew Garfield’s detective and his Native American partner, played by Gil Birmingham. Dustin Lance Black, who spent more than a decade adapting Jon Krakauer’s bestselling book, was himself raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk left the faith in his teens, around the time he came out as gay. Meanwhile Jeb Pyre, the Mormon detective assigned to their case, finds his belief shaken by the horrors carried out in the name of an extremist version of his faith. ![]() Fundamentalist Mormon brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty are so radicalized by their faith that they’re able to murder their sister-in-law and her 15-month-old daughter in the name of God. But in Under the Banner of Heaven, the crisis cuts both ways. When we talk about a crisis of faith, it’s usually about someone losing theirs.
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