- Network: Apple TV+
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 8, 2022
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Black Bird has enough interesting performances and just enough of an intriguing story to smooth over some its more generic and cliched parts. Lets hope the rough patches smooth out as the story goes along.
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Hauser, the show’s standout, presents a terrifyingly shrewd version of his screen type as a darkly comic bungler (as seen in “I, Tonya” and “BlacKkKlansman”). Unfortunately, the drama’s other half — Jimmy’s descent into the hell of an institution for the “criminally insane” and forced bond with a monster that makes him confront long-repressed memories of his own violence-filled childhood — is too by-the-numbers to be emotionally engaging.
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While Lehane and director Michaël R. Roskam conjure up an effective mood of unease and horror, Black Bird’s wallow in depravity, wading in deeper and deeper as it goes, proves less enlightening, less thought-provoking than its creators no doubt hoped.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 34
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Mixed: 3 out of 34
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Negative: 5 out of 34
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Jul 13, 2022
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Jul 19, 2022Black Bird is a series that leaves you intrigued from start to finish, and with great performances. A great choice for those who like true crime
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Sep 26, 2022Mildly entertaining, wildly over-acted. This show takes itself too seriously.