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I want to watch and with my husband but we have been distracted
I read the feedback sessions the writer/producer did in Atlanta with only Black groups said yes do it and make it visceral
So guess he took them at their word
I read the book a while ago, and it's one of those stories that I think about a lot. I'm looking forward to starting the series, but I have to be in the right headspace, because I know it's going be heavy and thoughtful.
I've watched episodes 1 and 2. It was going fine until the end of episode 1. Since then it doesn't make sense. Are they in some fantasy world?
I think it's an allegorical world.
Although I was a science teacher, one year I had a class of 7th grade American history, and the Underground Railroad was part of the curriculum. It was difficult getting kids to understand that there was no underground railroad in the Underground Railroad. But in this show they make it look like there was. In fact, it so confused me that I had to Google the Underground Railroad to make sure that I was remembering it correctly.
I also don't know of any 'skyscraper city' that operated that way, but I felt it was trying to tie in the much later Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
This is what crossed my mind as I finished binge watching the miniseries.
I was looking forward to this program, but I wish now that I had never started. Maybe it's just me. I like a story line that progresses in a linear fashion, and after the first maybe 3 episodes, this didn't. Really didn't. It seemed to me that within the ten episodes were a number of stories that would have done very nicely as stand alone stories.
There is one big plus here, however, and that is three of the primary actors. Thuso Mbedu -- the lead -- is superb. Chase Dillon, a child actor, is intriguing...hope we get to see him in other programs/films in the future. And Aaron Pierre is just great.
I don't know about the book. I just know I thought this series went way off track (pun intended) and never got back on it.
I thought the book was excellent. It's alternative history, with the Underground Railroad being a physical train, and how different deep south states found what they felt were effective solutions to runaways, freemen, and African Americans in general. I felt the book deserved the praise and awards it received.
The TV show had some excellent actors and I loved the cinematography. I thought it was beautifully filmed. But I also felt the story disappeared. The book was brilliant. The show was dismal. I was so disappointed at the missed opportunity to tell the story the book did.
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