“What do you like about women?” It’s a straightforward enough question that FBI agent Lauren McCauley puts to inmate Jimmy Keene early in the new Apple TV miniseries Black Bird. Still, each answer Jimmy manages is wrong. “Everything”, he says – too vague. “I’ve got sisters”, he adds, disappointingly – so you’re saying you wouldn’t like women if you didn’t understand them in relation to yourself? “I can chill with a woman in a way I never could with a dude”, Jimmy clarifies – please see previous objections.
But it’s Lauren’s thorny next question that becomes the prison thriller’s dark and unlikely preoccupation: “What don’t you like about women?”
