Series Review
'The Underground Railroad' is not so much a series as an epic film
With SA actress Thuso Mbedu as its star, this provocative series paints a moving picture of US slavery's brutal history
30 May 2021 - 00:00
Director Barry Jenkins's 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a wonderfully evocative and provocative beast that twists and turns its way through the brutal history of antebellum slavery in the US with a sharp eye for how this terrible chapter in America's past laid the foundation for its future...
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