Fleeing slavery in Georgia, she travels through different states, each dealing with race by employing different but uniformly horrifying methods.
Whitehead’s book tinkers with history in a variety of ways – perhaps foremost by making the Underground Railroad a literal mode of transportation and escape – while offering a naturally episodic approach to the ordeal of its protagonist, Cora (South African actor Thuso Mbedu). But the emotional wallop delivered by Amazon’s beautifully rendered limited series is somewhat offset by the journey’s length, stretching about six terrific hours’ worth of TV over a 10-hour format.
“The Underground Railroad” has an almost dreamlike quality, exploring an alternate history of the antebellum South that filters Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book through “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins’ lens.
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