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1. • • From the fleeting yet singular performances (like Calvin Leon Smith in Episode 6) to each remarkable shot (captured by D.P. James Laxton) and impeccable music choices (including Nicholas Britell’s hymnal score and known tracks picked by Jenkins for each set of end credits), every episode provides an immense amount of material to dissect and discuss, all of which is more important than reaching the end of the narrative — “The Underground Railroad” won’t reward you for bingeing all 10 hours in a...
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   Will 'the Underground Railroad' be adapted into a series?

   • On September 16, 2016, it was announced that Barry Jenkins was set to adapt Colson Whitehead 's novel The Underground Railroad into a limited series. Jenkins was expected to produce the series alongside Adele Romanski. Production companies involved with the series were set to include Plan B Entertainment.

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   Is the Underground Railroad based on a true story?

   • The real underground railroad, the historical 19th-Century network of people and safe houses that helped slaves escape, becomes a literal, physical trainline carrying people to safety in Colson Whitehead's novel, on which the show is based.

   The Underground Railroad review: A remarkable American epic - BBC

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   Should 'the Underground Railroad' be made?

   • According to The New York Times, in the early stages of 'The Underground Railroad's production, Jenkins consulted a focus group of Black Atlanta residents. Ninety percent of them responded with a yes, urging him to "Tell it, but you have to show everything. It needs to be hard. It needs to be brutal.

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   Is the Underground Railroad a history lesson?

   • A truly momentous achievement that will be analyzed and discussed for years to come, Barry Jenkins ’ “The Underground Railroad” is much more than a history lesson. It avoids the traps of period dramas in unexpected ways, alternating lyrical passages of magical realism with brutal reminders of the wounds inflicted by the history of slavery.

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   Should you watch 'the Underground Railroad' on Amazon Prime Video?

   • Jenkins (“Moonlight”) has said that this sort of question gave him pause in deciding whether to make the series. But make it he did. If you choose to watch “The Underground Railroad,” whose roughly 10 hours arrive Friday on Amazon Prime Video, yes, you will see atrocities. But you will also see humanity and resistance and love.

   Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision

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   What is 'the Underground Railroad' about?

   • “The Underground Railroad” is telling a story of people whose lives largely went unwitnessed and unrecorded, for a time when seemingly everything is captured and broadcast, when people have become exposed nerves taking in images of anguish and outrage. We spend our days looking and looking.

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   May 13, 2021 · Based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, this 10-part series is directed by Barry Jenkins, the lyrical auteur behind Best Picture winner Moonlight and the Oscar-nominated If Beale...

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   May 14, 2021 · A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. The overall arc of Cora’s narrative ebbs and flows through viciously realistic violence and into more dreamlike fantasies and back again.

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   May 15, 2021 · The Underground Railroad, adapted by the Moonlight director from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel, takes place in antebellum Georgia. Yet it’d be a mistake to call the series...

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   May 13, 2021 · The Underground Railroad is a towering series about the ways slavery still infects America. Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.

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   May 13, 2021 · NYT Critic’s Pick. In Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” Martin (Damon Herriman), a white man smuggling Cora (Thuso Mbedu) as she escapes...

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    The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.