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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Mar 9, 2016 21:56:42 GMT -5
mashable.com/2016/03/09/underground-show-review/#tOFzoUzT8Equ'Underground' is a suspenseful drama that demands your attention The heart-wrenching show, created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski and co-executive produced by John Legend, focuses on the complicated lives of slaves determined to escape to freedom.
But the story goes beyond the Underground Railroad; it weaves in the intricate complexities of life in that era. It's not just about the slaves who want to be free — it's about the slaves who refuse to leave, the slaves grappling with the life-or-death stakes, surrounded by the parallel world inhabited by white people in this tense period of American history.
All of that is packaged into a thrilling drama, mapped with plot twists at every turn and absolutely dripping with suspense. This isn't the type of show you can put on in the background. You'll need to stay tuned for every second, because anything can happen.
**** Definitely going to be watching this. Previews have looked awesome.
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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Apr 21, 2016 21:48:42 GMT -5
www.avclub.com/tvclub/underground-has-unseated-walking-dead-televisions--235653 Underground has unseated The Walking Dead as television’s finest survival thriller Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come unto me
Underground quickly distinguished itself as one of the best new shows of 2016 by leavening the horror of American slavery with the rollicking adventure of a meticulously plotted prison break. In that sense, Underground has reinvented the survival thriller, unseating The Walking Dead in the process. (And that would arguably be the case even correcting for TWD’s lack of quality control.) In fact, since the Macon Seven escaped from bondage, it’s almost startling how much Underground resembles The Walking Dead, with its frequent, tragic deaths, the ever-changing circumstances faced by its characters, and its meditations on how it feels to live in a world bent on your destruction. The moment when Cato hobbles Zeke to facilitate his own escape is very similar to the way Shane sacrificed Otis to save himself in “Save The Last One,” except that it takes place in a universe based on history rather than a hypothetical zombie apocalypse.
“Cradle,” the best episode of Underground’s first season, and an early contender for episode of the year, dives deep into a theme that ran through TWD’s second season. It wrestles with the question of what it means to be a child in such a bleak environment, one in which adulthood is far from guaranteed and living longer only means more unfathomable suffering. Underground ditches its elegant, animated credit sequence in order to save time, making it the first episode since the pilot to do so. In its place is a brilliant cold open that shows the production of Necco Wafers, the classic candy that becomes the great equalizer between children whose lives have little else in common. Of course, for most of their young lives they haven’t realized how different they are, and “Cradle” is so devastating and effective because it makes the audience witness the exact moments when each of the four children loses their innocence.
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Post by Ripley on Feb 4, 2017 2:11:12 GMT -5
Discuss Underground, heading into season 2, here. Some key art and casting news has just been released: Deadline: "WGN America has released key art for its critically praised series Underground ahead of the second season premiere. You can see a few of the images below, including new cast members Aisha Hinds As Harriet Tubman, Jasika Nicole As Georgia and Dewanda Wise As Clara"... They join returning cast including Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Jessica de Gouw, Alano Miller, Christopher Meloni and Amirah Vann. Additional guest stars this season include John Legend as renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass, along with Bokeem Woodbine, Michael Trotter, Jesse Luken and Sadie Stratton.
Season two follows an unremitting struggle for freedom within a divided America on the brink of civil war, each side vying to enact their own justice. Set in the aftermath of the Macon 7’s daring attempt to stage the greatest escape in history, this group of American heroes continues on their harrowing journey to freedom, with legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman blazing the trail." link
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