From Blumhouse Television and based on the award-winning novel by best-selling author James McBride, the limited Showtime series The Good Lord Bird tells the story of controversial abolitionist John Brown (played by Ethan Hawke, in a truly tour-de-force performance) from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved young man who finds himself in the middle of the battle over slavery. It is a complicated, complex and surprisingly humorous story that spotlights race, religion, gender roles and American identity, in a way that will make wonder if we’ve really gotten any …
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