The Underground Railroad is a new Amazon prime drama directed by Jenkins (
Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) based on the 1999 best-selling book written by
Colson Whitehead. Over the 10-episode inaugural season you follow Cora Randall, a young woman who escapes Georgia slavery only to go on a harrowing journey through a re-imagined 19
th century America to find freedom.
Without question,
The Underground Railroad is beautifully filmed, and for the most part well acted. The show also manages to do something that I never thought possible.
The Underground Railroad, somehow, despite the brutality, terror and suspense, manages to make the whole institution of slavery boring.