We say it a lot and we don’t usually make mistakes about it: the true crime It is one of the great veins of Netflix when it comes to creating content original quite affordable and has tremendous profitability. Waco: The Texas Apocalypse is the latest addition to a long line of films and series based on true crime.
As the title of the original Netflix documentary anticipates, the miniseries addresses the infamous Waco siege in 1993, when the FBI, Texas Rangers and ATF tried to put an end to the sectarian operations of David Koresh at the Mount Carmel ranch, in the Texas town of Waco.
What should have been a clean operation turned into hell by all accounts, something that translates into the morbidity that the Netflix documentary arouses and its 21.5 million hours of viewing in his early days on the platform. They may seem few compared to others seriesbut let’s remember that it is a documentary, which always has a lower average audience.
You don’t have to be a genius to realize account Why Waco: The Texas Apocalypse confirms that Netflix knows what they’re doing when they give the green light to these projects. But what makes this particular true crime so attractive? We are going to see 4 key factors, which are not unique, of its success.
4 reasons that fascinate Netflix’s new true crime
The main reason we are not going to delay is naturally the figure of David Koresh. The cult leader won the hearts of his followers until they became fans. Koresh died in the siege, but he remains a popular figure in the public imagination, especially in the United States, of course.
Also, David Koresh used faith to indoctrinate his followers and earn their absolute loyalty, something that always makes this type of series attractive because of how human beings are capable of letting themselves be guided away from any logic.
The fact that Koresh and his followers accumulate an absurd amount of weapons in the ranch of Mount Carmelo It is a third fundamental factor for the Netflix original to be an infallible attraction for the audience. The property was turned into an impregnable fortress.
Finally, we have the siege itself by the FBI, the Texas Rangers and the ATF, doomed to failure almost from its inception. 51 days of siege are proof that, although the probable cause behind the raid, the massive stockpiling of weapons, was real, the measures to carry out the raid were insufficient.
4 ATF agents were killed in the Waco siege, and 15 were injured to varying degrees of severity. 82 Davidian sectarians lost their lives, including 23 children and David Koresh himself. the wild fire that contributed to the tragedy at the end of the siege would be, if you want, a fifth incentive to sentence one of the biggest carnage of the nineties in Texas.
Netflix may have its drawbacks, like its new policy on sharing our account, but it is undeniable that they know how to handle true crime like nobody else. Have you seen Waco: The Texas Apocalypse yet?
