A lot of national TV critics, when reviewing “Under the Banner of Heaven,” bought into the idea that the Laffertys were “the Kennedys of Utah” — an idea that makes Utahns laugh, ScottDPierce notes.
Det. Jeb Pyre at home with his daughters in "Under the Banner of Heaven."In the final episode of “Under the Banner of Heaven,” Jeb Pyre — the Latter-day Saint police detective played by Andrew Garfield — finally gets upset enough to swear. Not that you can blame him when he drops an f-bomb.
Asked about the language in “Under the Banner,” Garfield replied, “Gosh, it is a whole …” — and then he realized what he’d just said. “Gosh!?!” he exlaimed. “I can’t help it. It is a disease. F—!FX/Hulu and Black have been clear since Day 1 that “Under the Banner of Heaven” is a fictionalized account of the Lafferty killings.
Many reviews of “Under the Banner” repeated the embellishment/falsehood that the Laffertys were one of the Utah’s best-known and most respected families. We’re talking about the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Playlist,, Slate, The Hollywood Reporter, and the BBC, just to name a few. And many of those publications accepted as fact that the Laffertys were the “Kennedys of Utah” — which is laughable to locals.
It purports to tell us about figures from history who were actually gay. Or gay-ish. In the first episode, that includes Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and an Egyptian pharaoh. The history is often suspect, and the comedy falls flat — often falling into offensive gay stereotypes. It’s a mess.Rip-off redux •
There’s no confirmation on whether the shows will leave fans hanging when they air their final episodes.No more ex-“Mormons” •
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