With Their Being Only A Little Over A Week Left Until The New FX Show Under The Banner Of Heaven Starts

With their being only a little over a week left until the new FX show Under the Banner of Heaven starts airing, I feel it's important that the community that will form around the show, that being mainly Andrew Garfield and Wyatt Russel stans, be aware that this show does not exist as a vector for making your favs look hot.

Going through the tag for the show, it's really upsetting how so many people are looking forward to these actors dressing nicely and are more focused on the content they can get to thirst over and make fan edits of, rather than care about the show itself.

While I recognize that these shows rely on star power to draw in a viewer, I maintain that as an audience, we have to be critical. Brenda and Erica Lafferty were brutally murdered at the hands of their brother in laws and uncle. Brenda herself, along with the other wives of the Lafferty family, were subjected to dehumanizing misogyny, and stripped of their freedom and rights. This story is not for the faint of heart, it will go into the deplorable atrocities committed against an innocent party, and will discuss heavy religious fundamentalist themes

Please, when you watch this show, be mindful of how you approach it. The stories presented are real; they were real people, and there are still people alive today who are affected by this. This is not the show for you to ogle an actor at, this is a show where two people lost their lives heinously, and a police force works to make sense of the tragedy.

True crime, as a genre, relies on the exploitation of victims for content, and one must always be wary of media that indulges in it. While I can't speak for the quality of representation in other FX true crime stories, I implore you as a viewer to take the time to be critical and do your research before you post online. As someone who read the book of the same name, I implore you to get a copy of it, it goes into so much more detail than I could put in one post.

For the love of god, please show the victims and their families some respect. No post you make is worth diminishing the atrocities that actually occurred.