‘Good Lord Bird’: Ethan Hawke Is Delightfully Unhinged In Showtime’s New Abolitionist Series [Review]

Barack Obama, who has spoken of reading “Gilead” while campaigning in Iowa.Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of “Gilead” that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead.

In a shocking announcement, Showtime detailed that the long-revered serial killer drama “Dexter” will return as a limited series for its ninth season, which is scheduled to begin airing eight years after the controversial finale. “Dexter” originally premiered on Showtime in 2006 and enjoyed its eight-season run through 2013, picking up 24 Emmy nominations with four wins.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language.The series, to be released on an as-yet-unannounced platform, begins filming this month in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.Written by Bedlam

Microsoft has released a new launch trailer for the upcoming Xbox Series X and S consoles, featuring Black Panther and Get Out actor Daniel Kaluuya.The trippy launch trailer follows Kaluuya as he boots up the next-gen Xbox system, only to get pulled into another dimension.

The Walking Dead for its long-awaited Season 10 finale on Sunday to the broadcast premiere of DC Universe's Swamp Thing on Tuesday and the debut of Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor at the end of the week, there is a lot to go around.

2013 novel of the same name, it mixes fact and historical fiction — all filtered through the eyes of Onion as he witnesses the events leading up to the Civil War.Hawke co-created and executive- produced the series; Daveed Diggs co-stars as Frederick Douglass.Johnson has also appeared in episodes of “Black-ish,” “Animal Kingdom” and FX’s “Snowfall,” but “The Good Lord Bird” marks his first starring role.He spoke to The Post about working with Hawke, learning about the Civil War and more.For my

Ethan Hawke opened up about his own family's regrets voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 election and compared Donald Trump's debate performance to Emperor Palpatine while appearing onThe Late ShowThursday night.

The Good Lord Bird was worth the wait.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticToo often, period pieces about the making of America treat the past with undue dignity, turning the raucousness and rambunctiousness of a two-and-a-quarter-century pageant of personalities into a chamber piece. American history is serious, sure, but it’s also giddy and strange, and too few entertainments treat it that way.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFor Ethan Hawke’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the crew was asked to create a dusty rural environment to simulate the world of 1850s Kansas, in which abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) proposes the armed overthrow of slavery.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFresh off their Emmy wins, “Watchmen” co-stars Regina King and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will present at The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s upcoming virtual Grants Banquet.The HFPA also announced on Thursday morning that Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aubrey Plaza, Billy Porter, Christian Slater, Danielle Macdonald, Ethan Hawke, Jason Sudeikis, Orlando Bloom, Rita Moreno, Riz Ahmed, Scott Eastwood and Zachary Quinto will also make appearances

ORIGINAL SERIESTHE GOOD LORD BIRDLimited Series Premiere Sunday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m.

It’s been nearly two years since the release of Barry Jenkins‘ last feature, “If Beale Street Could Talk.” But that doesn’t mean Jenkins has taken a break.

Certain movie stars go their entire careers without ever truly getting the kudos they deserve. Sure, everybody and their mother is fond of Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Meryl Streep, and Brad Pitt; they’ve given enough iconic performances to provide their audiences with a lifetime’s worth of Oscar clips.

2013 novel of the same name — “The Good Lord Bird” follows newly freed young slave Henry, nicknamed “Onion” (Joshua Caleb Johnson), who ends up with famous abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) and his band of soldiers on a crusade to end slavery. It culminates in the 1859 raid on the Army depot at Harpers Ferry, Va.

Inventing Anna, an upcoming 10-part Netflix drama, tells the story of Anna Delvey, the real-life con-artist who tricked New York’s elite circles into thinking she was a filthy rich German Heiress with $60 million to her name.

Even though we've followed Ethan Hawke's multi-decade journey from baby-faced pretty boy of Explorers and Dead Poets Society to more seasoned Oscar-nominated leading man, there's something both surprising and poignant about how frequently his character in Showtime's limited series The Good Lord Bird is referred to as "the old man." Nearing his 50th birthday, Hawke is, in fact, a decade younger than the man he’s playing in this limited series: abolitionist John Brown, whose ill-fated 1859 raid on

TOKYO -- Netflix is producing and shooting an original series set in Japan about a journalist who challenges authority, hoping to woo this nation that’s hooked on watching good old TV.Good timing.