HBO is working with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan and director Michelle MacLaren on Raven, a mini-series that will cover the story of the People’s Temple and the Jonestown massacre.
There’s also the reunion of Gilligan and MacLaren, the latter of whom directed some of Breaking Bad‘s best episodes.
The Jonestown massacre in 1978 was a weird, horrific event in a decade full of them.
The method of the mass suicide —juice poisoned with cyanide— is the origin of the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid” (although the juice used at Jonestown was not literally Kool-aid).