The Good Lord Bird (2020) Reviews & Ratings

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The Good Lord Bird reviews

The Good Lord Bird holds a 6.7/10 average from 109 TMDB ratings.

**Score: 10/10 — A Monumental, Unforgettable Masterpiece of American Storytelling** *The Good Lord Bird* is a genuine masterpiece. A towering achievement in television that deserves to stand alongside the greatest works of the medium. A "dangerous and honest show" that refuses to play it safe, it is an audacious, irreverent, and deeply human retelling of the final years of abolitionist John Brown, told through the e…
— misubisu (10/10)

Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.

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