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'The Underground Railroad' is far more than binge TV (opinion)


The Underground Railroad is far more than binge TV (opinion)
CNN
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Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph
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Thuso Mbedu in Barry Jenkins adaptation of The Underground Railroad (Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios).
Note: This op-ed contains mild spoilers for The Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad, premiering against the backdrop of America s current national reckoning on the politics of race, offers a luminous, troubling, artistically sophisticated and emotionally wrenching journey into racial slavery that reveals the peculiar institution s continuous grip on our national soul.
Based on Colson Whitehead s acclaimed and popular 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a Black teenager living under the yoke of slavery whose harrowing escape from her Georgia plantation inspires an epic journey. Cora s generational trauma her mother successful ....

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Barry Jenkins' 'The Underground Railroad' Is Harrowing And Stunning. Don't Binge It.


The Underground Railroad, a new Amazon Prime Video series, tells the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu).
This piece contains slight spoilers for “The Underground Railroad.” 
I took a deep breath before starting “The Underground Railroad,” Barry Jenkins’ TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. 
The limited series, which premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video, is a harrowing yet stunning 10-hour saga starring captivating newcomer Thuso Mbedu as Cora, an enslaved woman on a journey to freedom across the antebellum South by way of a literal subterranean train with conductors and secret passageways. Cora escapes the Randall Plantation in Georgia and makes it to the Carolinas, Tennessee and Indiana, with slave catcher Arnold Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) on her heels at every turn. Ridgeway, who failed to capture Cora’s mother when she escaped the plantation, is hellbent on catching Cora. ....

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