THEN NAME OF THE SKY
Type: detective story
Director: Dustin Lance Black. With Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Gil Birmingham, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Chloe Pirrie, Seth Numrich. On Disney+
Gil Birmingham and Andrew Garfield in “In Heaven’s Name” (photo by Michelle Faye/FX).
The murder of a young woman and her fifteen-month-old daughter, a police couple in the best US tradition of the genre, the violence and unspeakable secrets of a family from the Mormon community in Utah.
In the name of heaven he is a detective which tries to fulfill a function of historical denunciation and spiritual reflection on the nature of a faith. Reconstructing the true story of the Lafferty familyand of the news story that saw her protagonist in the 80s, the series follows the torments of detective Jeb Pyre (Andrew Garfield), a Mormon priest who sees his references falter just as he finds himself investigating his “brothers”.
Daisy Edgar-Jones as Brenda Lafferty (Photos by Michelle Faye/FX).
The victim is the young Brenda (Daisy Edgar-Jones), wife of one of the sons of the powerful Ammon Lafferty; we never see her battered body, but only the flashbacks of her life, of the attempts to emancipate the female figures of the Mormon communities, a gamble paid for with her life.
Pyre is helped by detective Bill Taba, far from religion, in the classic mechanism of the different and complementary police couple. The narration, in which there is no shortage of settings True Detectivethen turns to the political positions of the Laffertys, aligned with “sovereign” and anti-tax groups.
For those who love detective stories capable of investigating the contradictions of US society.
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