The Good Lord Bird
Meet the Lord
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2020-10-04
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.
In the series
This episode is part of The Good Lord Bird (2020) on Showtime.
John Brown raid through a boy's eyes — Ethan Hawke wild-eyed prophecy.
Key cast
- Ethan Hawke as John Brown
- Joshua Caleb Johnson as Henry Shackleford
- Wyatt Russell as Smoke