{"id":169437,"date":"2020-11-01T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=169437"},"modified":"2023-01-26T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:07:07","slug":"the-good-lord-bird-episode-5-hiving-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2020\/11\/01\/the-good-lord-bird-episode-5-hiving-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Lord Bird Episode 5: “Hiving the Bees”"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Good Lord Bird<\/em> hits hard in Episode 5, \u201cHiving the Bees\u201d as pretty much everything John Brown (Ethan Hawke) and Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson) have been planning so far falls apart completely. The episode serves entirely as a setup for the raid and devastation to come but it is much needed and well paced. Over the course of the running time, we discover the fatal flaw of Brown\u2019s plan is John Cook, Onion falls in love (for real this time), and the esteemed Frederick Douglass fails to pull his weight.<\/span><\/p>\n At the onset, Onion and John Cook (Rafael Casal) are already on their way to Harpers Ferry to fulfill their roles in the mission. Onion and Cook try vastly different styles of \u201chiving\u201d the various bees but both, initially at least, do a fairly terrible job of following through. Onion\u2019s issue remains his innocence, and the fact that it seems by now that nearly everyone they meet seems to realize he is a man dressing up as a woman, and immediately uses that knowledge against him. Or even in the best of cases, it causes characters otherwise sympathetic to the cause not to trust him.<\/span><\/p>\n