The Barry Jenkins Amazon series saves perhaps its most poignant story for its final episode
Phil Owen | May 15, 2021 @ 10:48 AM
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(This article contains spoilers for the finale of “The Underground Railroad” on Amazon Prime Video)
Throughout the ten episodes of Barry Jenkins’s “The Underground Railroad” on Amazon, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) often thinks about her mother, Mabel.
Mabel (Sheila Atim) is out of the picture before the series begins. As the story goes, she ran away from the Randall plantation where she and Cora had spent their whole lives when Cora was young. And she got away, apparently the slave catcher Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) says Mabel was the only slave who’s run away from Randall that he wasn’t able to catch.
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