Black Bird

Apple TV+ | Release Date: July 8, 2022

7.7	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Ratings

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LongLostPolentaJul 13, 2022

As another user alludes to, there's a certain cheesiness that pervades this so far -- the needless voice-over, the terrible musical montages, the bludgeoningly repeated flashbacks, the wall-to-wall score, some iffy casting choices -- but byAs another user alludes to, there's a certain cheesiness that pervades this so far -- the needless voice-over, the terrible musical montages, the bludgeoningly repeated flashbacks, the wall-to-wall score, some iffy casting choices -- but by the end of episode 2 it seems to sort of be getting out of its own way and (maybe? hopefully?) settling into something more grounded & strange. Paul Walter Hauser & Ray Liotta are wonderful. The movie The Drop (starring Tom Hardy & James Gandolfini) was a true unheralded gem, and was also written by Dennis Lehane & also directed by Michaël R. Roskam -- and I think that movie (which was very disciplined & grounded) shows the benefits of a medium where a *director with good cinematic instincts* has final say, and Black Bird shows the drawbacks of a medium where a *novelist-screenwriter with terrible cinematic instincts* has final say. Lehane, the writer & showrunner on Black Bird, should have given Roskam the scripts and said, "here, execute this beginning to end -- casting to shooting to editing -- as you see fit so it feels consistent, you're better at this than I am, I trust you."… Expand

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