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The Underground Railroad. (miniseries) The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama limited television series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.
- May 14, 2021
- Amazon Prime Video
May 14, 2021 · Barry Jenkins' adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad reaches us at a time when we are most prepared for its message, but severely challenged by its delivery system.
- Eric Deggans
Jun 25, 2021 · Barry Jenkins during the filming of The Underground Railroad. Photo: Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios. Writer-director Barry Jenkins is known for telling stories with aesthetic daring and more ...
- Features Writer
- Matt Zoller Seitz
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May 13, 2021 · In Barry Jenkins’s dreamlike adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel, the railway is real and so is the pain. ... At the same time, Jenkins gives “The Underground Railroad” epic scale. He ...
- James Poniewozik
May 10, 2021 · For director Barry Jenkins, filming The Underground Railroad has been the most difficult undertaking of his career. Amazon's new series based is based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
- Terry Gross
May 14, 2021 · In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s popular novel “The Underground Railroad,” it is as if the land speaks. In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund ...
The Underground Railroad. A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past. Weaving together historical fiction with moments of magical realism, The Underground Railroad is a full sensory ...
