YMMV / The Good Lord Bird

• Awesome Music: "Electric Pow-Wow Drum" by A Tribe Called Red, used to great effect in the trailer.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Daveed Diggs's Frederick Douglass has received quite a lot of attention, with many hoping Diggs would reprise the role in some miniseries or film about the man.
• One-Scene Wonder: Harriet Tubman shows up to be the coolest person in the room for a scene and then walks off, satisfied.
• Spiritual Successor: The "darkly comical and badass southern western about fighting slavery" vibes make it a good companion to Django Unchained. Quentin Tarantino famously dislikes biopics, but said if he ever did one, it'd be about abolitionist John Brown, so the miniseries (with its Tarantino-esque stylings at times) may be the closest we'll ever get to a Tarantino John Brown film.
  • The original book's folksy narration, frontier setting, and character dynamics (i.e., between an escaped slave and some flawed but well-meaning white people) are reminiscent of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well.