Wgn America's latest original scripted series is a "Prison Break"- or "The Fugitive"-style thriller with a provocative twist: its protagonists are runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, circa 1857. In the hourlong, 10-episode series, from co-creators Misha Green and Joe Polaski, an enslaved blacksmith named Noah (Aldis Hodge) organizes a small band of bondspeople and sets in motion a daring escape. Read More: "Can Wgn America's Stellar 'Manhattan' Finally Break Through?" Though escapees were a vanishingly small portion of the overall enslaved population in the antebellum U.S., the issue of "fugitive slaves," as the infamous 1850 law had it, assumed outsized importance in the years preceding the Civil War — and "Underground" is more invested in this mythic history than the nuances of the real one. (For the latter, Eric Foner's "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad" is a...
- 1/25/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
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