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Three Little Birds aims to lead us through the deep challenges facing three Jamaican women as they emigrate to England in 1957. Facing open, unapologetic racism and demoralizing working/living conditions, the limited series can't decide where to put itself and what tone to adopt. The dramatic moments that land are those where characters, and by extension us, are slapped about, literally and figuratively. But then the writers have also added scenes of recovery and restoration, which feel unearned and are heavy-handed. The final episode is especially confused as a happy ending seems predetermined - and then even that shifts in the final moments - written with a second season firmly in mind. If there is no second season, well, the audience has been badly served.