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The Good Lord Bird (TV Miniseries)

The Good Lord Bird

2020

Ethan Hawke (Creator), Mark Richard (Creator) ...

Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson, Beau Knapp, Mo Brings Plenty ...

6.6

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TV Series. Western. Drama. Comedy TV Miniseries (2020). 7 Episodes. Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this limited series based on the National Book Award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Hawke's fierce turn drives an adaptation that captures much of the novel's comic tone"	POS
United States	Liam Mathews TV Guide	"Magnificently crafted and unexpectedly funny (...) [Hawke offers] another excellent performance in a career full of them (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The miniseries tends to work best when the balance is at least 60/40 absurdity versus tragedy (...) Hawke is the comic engine driving the whole enterprise (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sonia Saraiya Vanity Fair	"The miniseries is good—at times, great. But Hawke is beyond great; he is incandescent."	POS
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"A wickedly funny take on an enigmatic man (...) if you never knew anything of Brown, and the event which most believe began the Civil War, then 'The Good Lord Bird' is the right place to start"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	Anchored by a truly remarkable performance from Ethan Hawke, 'The Good Lord Bird' is smart, entertaining television that doesn’t highlight or underline its timeliness or messages"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"Hawke’s committed and tenacious performance (...) is a galvanizing and surprisingly elegant reminder of what has come before in this nation"	POS
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"[It] is fine entertainment, capturing some measure of McBride’s jaunty, irreverent humor and featuring an absorbing performance by Ethan Hawke"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"With a rollicking pilot from director Albert Hughes (...) the limited series is bursting with lively music, well-staged shootouts, and a wicked sense of humor"	POS
United States	Judy Berman Time	"Ethan Hawke makes an electrifying John Brown in Showtime's witty, subversive 'The Good Lord Bird'"	POS

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