Created by Hannah Moscovitch and Jennifer Podemski, Little Bird follows the story of Bezhig (Darla Contois), a first nations child who was taken from her family during the 1960's "Sixties Scoop" and is now a young adult seeking to return home and re-find her roots. A very well produced drama, the series has a compelling story, is decently written and acted, although could be better, and is also of course quite sad. Filled with much trauma and hardships, often increasing as the series progresses, its fairly slow paced, though is shot beautifully. There's some truly good cinematography and blocking in scenes, I'm a fan of the longer, still camera, silhouette-style shots of the outdoors, as well as they way both directors positioned actors in rooms, it was nice and always interesting framing. Similar to Maid as a depressing yet important drama about those stuck in a system built specifically to work against them, at only 6 episodes, I wish we got to spend a bit more time with each character, things feel a bit rushed towards the end as it wraps up. With so much grief, if you like heavy dramas, especially one's with some modern historical significance this should be up there, but again I'll warn its a painful watch.
Review of Little Bird
