The Good Lord Bird

The Showtime series focused on the individuality of its Black characters

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Also, his journey from writing for the TV show ‘A Different World’ to now

Everything goes wrong, and quickly

Onion is drawing closer to manhood and it’s getting difficult to hide that he’s not a girl

John Brown shifts from pedestal-bound leader to co-conspirator

Sexy Frederick Douglass is ‘King of the Negroes’

Bob and Onion head to Pikesville, Missouri, and the life-or-death stakes become clearer

The limited series is a wild, stunning ride, filled with unexpected levity