5/23/2023 0 Comments The good lord bird reviewHe was also quite mad, according to many who encountered him. This all takes some getting used to, but stick with it to the second episode and you will be rewarded.īrown was an abolitionist intent on overthrowing slavery through violent means, hanged for treason in 1859. “And in that moment, just like the rest of the country, Chase was divided in half,” the narrator says solemnly. There is a haunting scene of slaves being hanged for plotting insurrection, and then another that makes you snigger as a Redshirt named Chase is blown to smithereens by a cannon. It is a delirious Western which leavens the deathly serious subject matter of slavery with almost Python-esque humour. Now that Brown is marching on to our screens in The Good Lord Bird (Sky Atlantic), I have a chance to get acquainted with his story, although the show is as far from a dry history lesson as you can imagine. As with many things in my school days, I dutifully sang “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave” without the foggiest idea what it was about.
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