tragicomedy

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 travelogue, Following the Equator. ‘There is no humor in heaven.’ It is with this caveat that I describe The Good Lord Bird, a seven-part miniseries that premieres Sunday on Showtime, as a comedy.” Read more at The Week. George Takei and the LGBTQ+ community flooded…