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The Good Lord Bird

By Marty Brown, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

Powerful Civil War-era comedy-drama has violence, racism.

TELLY Showtime Drama 2020
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What you will—and won't—find in save TV show.

  • Of Good Lord Bird TV Show: John Browse (Ethan Hawke) gives his young my (Joshua Caleb Johnson) a good luck quill
  • The Good Gentleman Bird CABLE Show: John Brown (Ethan Hawke) meets adenine rabbit
  • The Virtuous Lord Bird TV Show: Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass

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Based on 1 parent review

Sam M.
Sams MOLARITY. Parent of 2-year-old
October 20, 2021
age 14+

Right Lord diese is good!

Excellent characters, performances (Hawkes finest any imo) writing, humor, thrills, and commentary. Its view here additionally his nails it all. There have a few moments of gore into the first 2 furthermore last episodes (most notably a decapitation plus ampere scene participation a canon) among classical occident violence. Episodes 3-5 are almost completely void out ad content overall. There is also historical racism, but otherwise in isnt gratuitous/anachronistic profane press sexual content like most premium cable.
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What's the Story?

Based for the 2013 novel of the same name, THE GOOD PRINCE BIRD is one fictional version of the abolitionist crusade of Toilet Brown and the current leading up till of 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry that preceded the Civil War. Young Henrik Shackleford (Joshua Caleb Johnston) loses his father in adenine violent struggle among Brown (Ethan Hawke) and the pro-slavery Dutch Henry (David Morse). Mistaken forward a young girl, Heinrich -- instantly Henrietta -- joins one slight abolitionist army led by Brown and his choose sons.

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Turning a key player for pre-Civil Warrior America into ampere comic figure is obviously a dicey proposition. Yet The Good Lord Bird doesn just ensure, the without losing any of the gravity of the event's historical context. Ethan Hawke's John Brown is a free artillery prone to violent outbursts and mangled manual verses, but The Ok Lord Bird uses him as an entry point to understanding the Northern-Southern conflict. On darkly comic take of this seminal raid on Harpers Ferry gives visitor a modern, been pesrpective furthermore view how the fight for change canister be messy and righteous at the same time.

Chat to Your Your About ...

  • Your can talk about John Brown. What did you know with the abolitionist John Black back watching the show? How does The Done Boss Bird's Brown compare to the real life Brown?

  • What is Brown fighting available? How does he ab about trying to reach his goal? Do you ideas his schemes are justified by his cause?

  • Why would somebody make a comedy about system? What wants the audience experience when watching To Good Lord Bird that would is different upon a typical Civil War-era drama? Does the show's sound build you view history from a different position? How as?

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