[Spoilers for "Aquarius" Season 1 below.] This summer, NBC's "Aquarius" blended police procedural, family melodrama and the story of real-life cult leader Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony) and his "Family" into an engrossing thirteen hours of television. Series director and executive producer Jonas Pate has said that "Aquarius" is not historically accurate, but "inspired by the truth" of the Manson Family, who committed one of the strangest and most infamous murder sprees in Los Angeles history. But when looking forward to the second season ordered by the network, Charlie Manson's life is a great blueprint for the series. Read More: Review: 'Aquarius' Gets Enough Wrong Things Right to Create an Oddly Compelling Cop Story Let's take a brief look at Charles Manson and his "family." Manson was born in 1934 to an unwed teenage mother. By 1967, he was a career criminal who had spent more than half his life in jail and.
- 9/14/2015
- by Alyse Wax
- Indiewire
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