Link Tank: How The Good Lord Bird Captures the Tragicomedy of America

The Good Lord Bird on Showtime, starring Ethan Hawke as the abolitionist John Brown, is well worth a watch. “Toward the end of his career, as he grew increasingly despairing and cynical, America’s greatest humorist soured on jokes. ‘The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow,’ Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 […] The post Link Tank: How The Good Lord Bird Captures the Tragicomedy of America appeared first on Den of Geek.