Review: “Black Bird,” another true-crime drama, is half-terror, half-autopilot
Concocted by the FBI, the plan is so far-fetched that it earns the immediate scorn of a respected local cop . “What you’re doing isn’t police work,” he tells the federal agent coordinating the scheme. “It’s desperation.”,” the Apple limited series is the TV equivalent of a pair of dad jeans — a little dated, maybe a bit too comfortable in established patterns, but not giving up entirely on staying current.
murderer, Larry Hall, is such a cliche he comes with a creepy van — and an even creepier voice. High, thin and wheezy, his utterances make him sound as if his lungs have never gotten enough air.In fact, that’s partly why the police in Larry’s Midwestern hometown initially dismiss him as a “serial confessor” — a “harmless weirdo” who grew up by a cemetery, dug graves as a kid to help support his parents and admitted to killing teenage girls so he could feel like a somebody.
by his older brother. Gary developed into a handsome, athletic boy who found it easy to attract girls. Larry followed them around in his van.
He is, however, smart enough to abduct girls in one state and leave their bodies in another, confounding detectives who are in the dark about similar cases in neighboring jurisdictions in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin. One of the series’s main pleasures is watching him gradually reveal his true self — and his apparent death toll — to his suspiciously amiable new buddy Jimmy .
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