The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 |
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"History rendered as a blood-soaked tragicomic fever dream"
The Good Lord Bird follows a young enslaved boy nicknamed Onion who is swept into the orbit of the fiery abolitionist John Brown just before the raid on Harper's Ferry. Disguised as a girl for safety, Onion watches Brown's zealotry, chaos, and violence up close as the country lurches toward civil war. The show is a picaresque, darkly comic tour through pre-Civil War America, anchored by a wild-eyed lead performance. It's loose, episodic, and tonally slippery, swinging from absurd comedy to sudden brutality, carried more by voice and atmosphere than plot momentum.
a ferociously unhinged performance from Ethan Hawke as the zealous abolitionist John Brown.
you want straightforward historical drama rather than a tonally erratic, satirical picaresque.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Meet the Lord | 7.8 | 654 | 57 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | A Wicked Plot | 8.0 | 516 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Mister Fred | 7.8 | 455 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Smells Like Bear | 7.8 | 429 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Hiving the Bees | 8.0 | 415 | 51 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Jesus Is Walkin' | 8.2 | 399 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Last Words | 8.4 | 396 | 45 min |