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Arts > TV > 2021 > USA > The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad - Official Trailer Prime Video Amazon Prime 15 April 2021
“Nothing was given, all was earned. Hold on to what belongs to you.”
From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead comes the Amazon Original limited series "The Underground Railroad".
Premiering May 14 on Prime Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pq5Usc_JDA
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As in several recent stories — the movie “Harriet,” the series “Underground” — an abolitionist network abets Cora and Caesar’s escape.
But in a magic-realist twist, this underground railroad is no metaphor.
It’s a rough-hewed network that honeycombs the country, its stations ranging from grotty caverns to palatial terminals.
“Just look outside as you speed through,” a railway worker tells them, and you’ll see the true face of America.”
That face proves to be multiple and monstrous.
Cora’s journey into an alternative antebellum America takes her to South Carolina, where a paternalistic regime of uplifting Black people hides sinister intentions;
North Carolina, of the horrific Freedom Trail, where Black people are banned entirely, on pain of death;
Tennessee, smoldering from a biblical litany of disasters;
and Indiana, where free Black families nurture a tenuous prosperity. (The last setting is the series’s most idyllic, and thus its most heartbreaking.)
Comparisons with “Roots” will be inevitable, but where that mini-series explored the sweep of slavery over generations, “The Underground Railroad” zooms in on how the trauma of generations is concentrated in one mind and one body.
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