Showtime's TheGoodLordBird: TV review
Explorersto more seasoned Oscar-nominated leading man, there's something both surprising and poignant about how frequently his character in Showtime's limited seriesNearing his 50th birthday, Hawke is, in fact, a decade younger than the man he’s playing in this limited series: abolitionist John Brown, whose ill-fated 1859 raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry helped push the country to the brink of the Civil War.
It's an interpretation of the militant abolitionist taken straight from James McBride's acclaimed novel, which Hawke and Mark Richard have adapted with all of its tonal and pacing peculiarities intact, mostly for the best. Based only on reactions to the trailer, my sense is that people unfamiliar with the book aren't going to be sure if laughter is intended, given the subject matter. But it surely is; this is a rollicking show.. That said, he isn't really the hero.
Many of the supporting characters in Brown's sphere also seem to be there more as reminders of Hawke's venerability than as fully realized characters — for example, hisco-star Ellar Coltrane as one of Brown's interchangeable sons and Hawke's real-life daughter Maya , exhibiting the winsome unforced charm that's quickly becoming her calling card, as one of his daughters.
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