A murder investigation cracks open a Utah family's descent into religious extremism in this true-crime mini-series starring Andrew Garfield.
What is Under The Banner Of Heaven about?
Detective Jeb Pyre, a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is called to the scene of a brutal killing inside an affluent Utah household. As he pulls at the threads of the case, the trail leads not to a stranger but into the family itself, and into a fringe strand of fundamentalist belief that the mainstream church has spent decades trying to distance itself from. Pyre's partner, a Native American detective who stands outside the faith entirely, gives him an outsider's read on a community that closes ranks fast. The series moves between the present-day investigation and flashbacks tracing how a once-ordinary family drifted toward radical conviction, letting the audience watch the slide happen in real time rather than hearing it summarized after the fact. Pyre's own certainties, about his faith, his community, and what a good family is supposed to look like, come under sustained pressure as the case unfolds.
About the cast
Andrew Garfield leads as Detective Pyre, playing the character's unraveling faith with a restraint that carries much of the show's tension. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, and Adelaide Clemens round out a cast built around a single fractured household, with Birmingham anchoring the outside perspective that keeps the investigation grounded.
Context & significance
Under the Banner of Heaven is a mini-series set in Utah, built around a crime story and its collision with religious fundamentalism. Dustin Lance Black directs, working from Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book of the same name, and the show is structured as a limited run rather than an open-ended series, giving the case a clear beginning and end. Genre-wise it sits between procedural drama and character study, with the mystery mechanics kept in service of the family portrait rather than the reverse.
Watching Under The Banner Of Heaven on Ktime
Under the Banner of Heaven streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the case in Farsi or with the original English performances subtitled. The page itself is free to browse; watching requires only a K-Time account login, no separate purchase. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking households to find and queue a series like this alongside the rest of the crime and drama catalogue.