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The film s based on Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer-winning 2016 novel.
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One viewer s historically inaccurate torture porn is another s landmark streaming event. That s the range of reactions to The Underground Railroad, Amazon Prime s indelible and indispensable 10-episode take on Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer-winning 2016 novel about slavery and the continuing myth that it s been eradicated.
You can binge the film version of The Underground Railroad or contemplate its themes over time. I d take the no-rush approach to this new American classic since director and co-writer Barry Jenkins, an Oscar winner for Moonlight, has packed each charged episode with enough beauty, terror and racial p