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The Underground Railroad review: An ambitious American odyssey, compelling even when it s flawed Darren Franich © Provided by Entertainment Weekly Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios Thuso Mbedu on The Underground Railroad The last thing you want in a TV show portraying slavery is phony sensitivity. Don t let that all-encompassing historical monstrosity off the hook with a chilly, inoffensive lecture. So credit director Barry Jenkins for turning up  The Underground Railroad s heat. The 10-part miniseries (streaming May 14 on Amazon Prime Video) adapts Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with every tool in the cinematic toolkit. In a terrifying 19th century located halfway between myth and your newsfeed, the whip cracks sound like gunshots. Magic-hour light shines so bright on enslaved men and women that their bodies are outlined with halos. There are flashbacks, flash-forwards, and a font so huge that Georgia splits across two lines. Outkast, the Pha

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