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Underground Railroad, an orgy of gratuitous violence that is the latest entry among shows with a disturbing focus on "black trauma porn."
Relentlessly violent and viciously anti-Christian, it mixes historical truths with exaggerated fictionalized narratives, often trying to tie the constant brutality against black people to the “very foundations” of America.
The series is based on the novel of the same title by Colson Whitehead. The novel imagines a literal railroad underground to transport slaves, a magical element that would normally be a great starting point for any story. Unfortunately,
The
Underground Railroad also imagines other over-the-top elements that make it worthless as historical fiction.