Review of Black Bird

Fantastic acting by the two principal characters, particularly Paul Walter Hauser, who convincingly plays a psychopathic serial killer. That said, this could have been an excellent 90 or 120 minute film (instead of a fairly good 6-part mini-series) by removing the extortion sub-plot with a corrupt prison guard and a budding relationship with a revered mafia boss, neither of which is resolved by the end of the series and neither of which have any bearing on its conclusion.