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- Apple TV+
- Jul 8, 2022
- Apple TV+
- Jul 8, 2022
Summary Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) was sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison with no possibility of parole but is given a choice of a shorter sentence if he enters a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and can elicit a confession from serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) in the Dennis Lehane adaptation of Jam...
- Apple TV+
- Jul 8, 2022
- Apple TV+
- Jul 8, 2022
Summary Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) was sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison with no possibility of parole but is given a choice of a shorter sentence if he enters a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and can elicit a confession from serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) in the Dennis Lehane adaptation of Jam...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
10% Mixed
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3 Reviews
0% Negative
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"Black Bird" effectively conveys the complicated reality of undercover work and what it has to say about the human condition. This is a must-see and not just for fans of the prison genre.
The performance that will leave audiences as stunned as they are nauseous is courtesy of Paul Walter Hauser as Larry Hall. ... And, of course, there’s Taron Egerton, who commands the camera with a confident stride and shoulders so wide they fill the entire frame.
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Based on 34 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
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9% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
15% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Incredible series, with incredible performances. One of the best true crimes
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SEASON 1
You’ll hang on in breathless suspense as Taron Egerton’s convicted drug runner gets a shot at freedom if he can work a confession out of his serial-killer cellmate (a brilliant Paul Walker Hauser). A posthumous Emmy for the great Ray Liotta, as an ex cop, would be poetic justice.
It is when Jimmy and Larry meet up in prison that Black Bird really begins to take flight. Suspicion gives way to tolerance, becomes fragile friendship and then moves on to something much more sinuous and slippery.
Egerton’s characterisation stops short of real likeability, but he’s good in scenes where Keene shows his vulnerabilities and struggles to cover up his nerves. The more impressive performance here is from Paul Walter Hauser as Hall. ... There is some cat-and-mouse flirting with a female FBI agent (Sepideh Moafi) that feels extraneous, but otherwise the writing draws us in.
It’s certainly intentional that Hauser’s Hall is a seductive character, but Lehane probably didn’t intend for our interest, and even our sympathies, to tilt so completely in his direction. Despite that imbalance in the dramatic weight, “Black Bird” is mostly engaging - Hauser is onscreen a lot, and the production has a hushed quality, with occasional expressionistic touches, that is reminiscent of David Fincher’s crime stories.
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.
Finding good series/movies nowadays is not an easy task. Black Bird, so far, is committed to entertainment. Make the viewer connect with the characters and dive into a good story. It's not woke. It's not a rally. It's simply: entertainment. Congratulations on that!
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SEASON 1
admirable
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worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection.
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SEASON 1
Firstly, the story is so ludicrous I had to laugh at the disclaimer "inspired by true events". This is an ok but fairly cheesy and predictable attempt at a True Detective style procedural thriller where the killer pretends to be mentally impaired but is actually a criminal mastermind. The drug dealer just happens to be a totally ripped male model and his FBI handler a smoking hot young **** believability is stretched to breaking point at times here. Apple aint no HBO, put it that way.
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SEASON 1
I'm two episodes in and while I generally like it and am interested to see what happens, there's a cheesiness to it, a Wahlbergness about it, that just throws me off. For example, the scene where the DA (agent, whatever she is) tells the main character that she'll have to pose as his girlfriend and he'll have to grope her to make it look legit was just corny af. The first two episodes are full of that Miami Vice **** I was hoping this would be much darker. We'll see.
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