The Good Lord Bird
A Wicked Plot
Season 1, Episode 2 · Aired 2020-10-11
Synopsis
Separated from Brown's army, Onion and fellow slave Bob leave the fight in Kansas only to cross paths with pro-slavery "red shirts" who escort them to the slave-trading town of Pikesville, Missouri. Onion is taken under the wing of Pie, a mixed-race prostitute working out of the local hotel, who instructs him in the ways of the world despite her discovering his dangerous secret. Onion soon finds himself enmeshed in a mounting slave insurrection where he learns the consequences of his own actions.
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