![]() ![]() Set over a period of months, across a swath of northern America and Canada, it brings the duo to a tipping point. ![]() “Smells Like Bear,” an exquisitely rendered piece of television, finally regulates Onion and Brown’s relationship. How else could a formerly enslaved teenager with no survival skills or protection make his way in late 1850s America? A man who hears the voice of God urging him to take up arms and free the slaves hasn’t had the wherewithal to realize that the slave closest to him, often tucked right beside him next to fires and on train seats, is now technically free but knows nothing of what that means. He believes he’s been kidnapped - he’s tried, more than once, to run away. ![]() Most of it happened.”) But until now Onion has been dragged along. He’s a custom-designed sidekick, a well-engineered foil, a little buddy made to chat with John Brown and reflect back the absurdity of Brown’s chaotic ideas. It’s worth reminding ourselves that Onion is the only fully fictionalized bit of The Good Lord Bird. Photo: William Gray/William Gray/SHOWTIME ![]()
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