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The Good Lord Bird - Ethan Hawke gives a career best performance as abolitionist John Brown - Sun on Showtime
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This is tonight. So am I to believe that some people have already seen it? Is it airing earlier on the west coast or something?
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Looks like it's also on YouTube, for free!
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The Good Lord Bird | Series Premiere | Full Episode (TVMA)
Meet the Lord. A young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a fateful run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who “frees” him, nicknames him “Onion...
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So was John Brown actually crazy, or is this perception of him the result of over a century of propaganda from a white america that tried to delegitimize the man's actions because they hated him for what he stood for?
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Looks like it's also on YouTube, for free!
The Good Lord Bird | Series Premiere | Full Episode (TVMA)
Meet the Lord. A young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a fateful run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who “frees” him, nicknames him “Onion...
Oh hell yeah! Watching tonight.
Questions Browns sanity...
*Cut to him holding up a wild hare*
Do you have fire in your heart for justice?
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The humor and dialog in this is on point
I cant answer this but I have to say I dig how the show plays around with his cartoonish characterization in regards to his sanity yet his legitimate progressive notions are seen as just as odd.
*Cut to him holding up a wild hare*
Do you have fire in your heart for justice?
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The humor and dialog in this is on point
I cant answer this but I have to say I dig how the show plays around with his cartoonish characterization in regards to his sanity yet his legitimate progressive notions are seen as just as odd.
Brown being crazy was a canard advanced mainly by Lost Cause historians in the late 19th century.
Brown was ultra-devout, but nobody who actually knew him considered him mad (in the clinical sense we use today). Douglass was taken aback on first meeting him by how much he seemed to care about the cause.
Showtime shows are usually on the app/on demand the day it airs.
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I recommend reading Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz (and all of his other books) as it is a really amazing look at the character.
Yep. The only one that wasn't recently was the Homeland series finale which didn't drop until that Sunday evening.
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Really enjoyed that first episode, but watched it on YouTube--ugh, I don't want to have to buy another channel.
Not as familiar with John Brown/the novel as I wish I was, but understand that he was one of the few true white abolitionists who (radically) believed in equality of all and wasn't just using it politically.
Can't wait for Daveed/Douglass to make an appearance.
Production value is fantastic, as well--the show is beautiful. Lots of telephoto & telephoto wide shots, too, with some vintage lens (looks like).
Not as familiar with John Brown/the novel as I wish I was, but understand that he was one of the few true white abolitionists who (radically) believed in equality of all and wasn't just using it politically.
Can't wait for Daveed/Douglass to make an appearance.
Production value is fantastic, as well--the show is beautiful. Lots of telephoto & telephoto wide shots, too, with some vintage lens (looks like).
Fantastic, important subject matter, this could have been a thoughtful piece of work. Instead, the filmmakers have chosen to make yet another live action cartoon. Oh well.
Have you seen the whole series? I've only seen episode 1 and while it was more entertaining than thought provoking, I think you're selling it a little short. Onion has already talked about John Brown still being just a crazy white dude, how the North & South both don't give a fuck about slaves in their own way(s).
One thing I'm not a huge fan of is the "John Brown's band of merry men" dynamic. Maybe because it's already hard to buy a genuine white dude in the 1800s who believed in equality (even though I believe that is historically accurate), so having a whole band of "good" white people feels a little contrived.
I've only seen the first episode--up on YouTube for free--as it's the only episode I can financially afford to watch at this time. It was near WB-level cartoon hijinks in 19th century Kansas. Seemingly nothing is executed turned down below 11. I don't need to be screamed and spouted at for an hour. Not remotely something which interests me.
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In short, it's a series about a legendary white abolitionist (John Brown) who led a small, multi-race bandit group in the famous raid on Harpers Ferry armoury in an attempt to start mass slave revolts across the south. This event is thought to have, even in a small part, been a catalyst for the Civil War. You can probably guess who are dragging the review scores down, and why.
You can watch the full 1st episode on Showtime's youtube channel.
Edit: nvm someone already posted it
Edit: nvm someone already posted it
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Steve Zahn getting blown in half with the cannonball 😮
Sweet!
Sweet!
Really wish I had checked into this thread a couple days ago.
Amazon had two months of Showtime for 99 cents a month on Prime day. That's how I'm watching
This show is fantastic! One of the best Showtime has put out. Helluva first episode by Albert Hughes too
This is coming to Sky on the 6th of November here in (big parts of) Europe. Double episodes every week. Can't wait.
Thanks for the thread. Love Hawke, ,trailer looks awesome. Going to get up to speed on the first 3 episodes.
Ethan Hawke is wildly underrated/underappreciated. I am kicking myself for not starting to watch this yet.
Edit: check out In the Valley of Violence too.
Edit: check out In the Valley of Violence too.