The series will features flashbacks to everything from Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. And Allen Lafferty, the husband of Brenda and father of Erica, tells Garfield’s character that the LDS faith “breeds dangerous men.”

“If you do a deep dive into any religion — but I think particularly the Mormon religion — there’s only two ways to go,” Black said. “It’s either going to become a musical comedy, or it’s going to turn to terror and horror. And there are things that need to be changed in this church. … And this show presents some of those things that need to be changed.”