Thanks to the glut of wannabe prestige content, many might argue that the golden age of true crime-related media is over, and has been for a while now. But even if that's the case, then Apple TV's Black Birdis the exception to the rule. Based on a true story, Black Bird is told through the eyes of Jimmy Keene (played by Taron Egerton), a convicted felon who makes a deal with the FBI to obtain an early release from his 10-year sentence. In order to obtain an early release, he agrees to go undercover to a degree: by befriending Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser), a prison inmate suspected of murdering over a dozen young girls, in order to solicit a jailhouse confession backed by solid evidence.