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‘The Underground Railroad’: TV Review Daniel Fienberg
With his Amazon adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning novel
The Underground Railroad,
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins walks confidently, if perhaps unintentionally, into the ongoing debate about Black-created/led movies and TV shows that center Black trauma. That debate has reached a fever pitch in recent months with small-screen offerings like
Late in this
Underground Railroad, a character approaches a roving poet with a simple and sad request: “If I gave you my sorrows, would you make them sound pretty?”
Directing all 10 installments, most running over an hour, Jenkins indeed makes a wide range of sadness beautiful, doing the same for strains of trauma and rays of joyful light. By nature of its subject matter,
In Barry Jenkins’ 10-hour historical fantasy miniseries
The Underground Railroad, regret is generational, as easily passed down in a family as eye color or hair texture.
The Underground Railroad, adapted by the
Moonlight director from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel, takes place in antebellum Georgia. Yet it’d be a mistake to call the series a slave narrative. There’s only pain and suffering in a genre originally constructed to end slavery by explaining the horrors of plantation life to Northern white readers.
That gaze leapt from literature’s pages to dominate contemporary movie screens in films like
Amistad,
Review: The Underground Railroad searches for beauty amidst horror
Review: The Underground Railroad searches for beauty amidst horror
Barry Jenkins s adaptation of Colson Whitehead s novel is cognizant of how Black suffering is turned into spectacle By Radheyan Simonpillai
William Jackson Harper and Thusu Mbedu share a quiet moment in The Underground Railroad.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Barry Jenkins). All 10 episodes available to stream Friday (May 14) on Amazon Prime Video Canada. Rating:
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As breathtakingly beautiful as it is, The Underground Railroad can also be a traumatizing watch. The 10-part limited series is directed by Barry Jenkins. He brings the romantic aesthetic and focus on Black love we see in his films like Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk to this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.