This is a great miniseries largely due to the already bizarre and compelling story in real life as well as the mountains of material they can work with. In each episode, the moral ground shifts you to support one team or the other -- at least for me. Along the way, all the hypocrisy about the American democracy and freedom of religions.
Can filmmakers do whatever they want to challenge audience’s sensibility, patience, intellectual capacity? Absolutely yes and by all means please do! I love Tsai’s approach to reveal interviewees’ unspeakable joy and shame, by simply blowing up their facial features, usually unpleasant ones, being as flaw as they get. It’s courageous behavior art.