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'The Underground Railroad' Review

'The Underground Railroad' Review

Moonlight's Barry Jenkins adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel

Max Covill
May 04, 2021
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Underground Railroad (Credit: Amazon/Kyle Kaplan)

This is America.

The Underground Railroad is a new limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead novel. This isn’t the Underground Railroad you’ve read about before. The series imagines the railroad as a figurative railroad where passengers board trains in an attempt to escape the ch…

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