Name: The Good Lord Bird
Genre: Drama, Western, History

The Good Lord Bird Episode 1.01 Meet the Lord

The Good Lord Bird Episode 1.01 Meet the Lord

Episode Premiere

October 4, 2020

Genre

Drama, Western, History

Production Company

Blumhouse Television

Official Site

http://www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird

Information

Episode Premiere

October 4, 2020

Genre

Drama, Western, History

Period

2020 - Now

Production Co

Blumhouse Television

Distributor

Showtime

Official Site

http://www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird

Cast and Crew

Director

Albert Hughes

Screenwriter

Mark Richard, Ethan Hawke

Main Cast

Ethan Hawke as John Brown
Joshua Caleb Johnson
Beau Knapp
Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass

Synopsis

Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl and promptly "frees" him. Believing Henry to be his good luck charm, Brown welcomes him into his ragtag army and nicknames him "Onion". Donning a dress for the first time while dodging bullets, Onion quickly awakens to the life or death stakes in the battle over human bondage and witnesses Brown's divinely inspired violent agenda: to free the land of slavery by any means necessary. Series premiere.