TV series

The Underground Railroad

2021 · 1 season

A haunting, visually poetic journey through America's darkest history, demanding patience and emotional endurance.

Overview: Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Race, survival, freedom, trauma
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: race
survival
freedom
trauma
justice
Places: countryside
small town
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild