Date Started: March 25, 2024
Date Completed: April 2, 2024

Date Started: March 25, 2024
Date Completed: April 2, 2024

Such a hard watch but absolutely worth the watch. Barry Jenkins created something really unique here. The fucking score hit so fucking hard. Nicholas Britell made some of the best pieces of music for any tv show or movie here. While the Underground Railroad is extremely traumatic, especially in the opening episodes, this limited series is definitely not trama porn like some people on here are accusing this of being. There’s a scene where a slave catcher recite verses of the Bible condoning slavery while he viciously beats an escaped slave. Shit like that is something that I’ll never forget. Barry has truly proved himself an absolute master at his craft.

Such a hard watch but absolutely worth the watch. Barry Jenkins created something really unique here. The fucking score hit so fucking hard. Nicholas Britell made some of the best pieces of music for any tv show or movie here. While the Underground Railroad is extremely traumatic, especially in the opening episodes, this limited series is definitely not trama porn like some people on here are accusing this of being. There’s a scene where a slave catcher recite verses of the Bible condoning slavery while he viciously beats an escaped slave. Shit like that is something that I’ll never forget. Barry has truly proved himself an absolute master at his craft.

I read the novel a few months ago in preparation for this, and I personally believe it’s the greatest American novel since 1987. It is unimpeachable, taut, and incredibly imaginative. It brings me great pain to say the show is not; however, it’s own charms, which are noticeably absent from the novel, make this 10 hour journey worth it

i personally thought this was not for me up until episode…. 6/7. It takes a LONG time to find footing and voice. But once it does it, and the Fanny Briggs segment happens, it makes you wonder, was the rest this assured? Surely, the craft was. Barry Jenkins, as always, arrests me with his signature style; but the narrative - where the book excels - is put on the back burner. This is quiet, loving, painful, and beautiful. All are in direct opposition of the novel: fast, grotesque, haunting, vile. The novel is a landmark because Cora is so violent, bratty, and headstrong. She’s less of a hero, and more a victim of her own misdeeds. I don’t get that here. Instead, I get a magnum opus of black excellence, running parallel with modern sensibilities. 

If you are a barry jenkins purist, this is the one. If you are not, I cannot imaging you getting through episode 5. But I’m sure glad that I did

I read the novel a few months ago in preparation for this, and I personally believe it’s the greatest American novel since 1987. It is unimpeachable, taut, and incredibly imaginative. It brings me great pain to say the show is not; however, it’s own charms, which are noticeably absent from the novel, make this 10 hour journey worth it

i personally thought this was not for me up until episode…. 6/7. It takes a LONG time to find footing and voice. But once it does it, and the Fanny Briggs segment happens, it makes you wonder, was the rest this assured? Surely, the craft was. Barry Jenkins, as always, arrests me with his signature style; but the narrative - where the book excels - is put on the back burner. This is quiet, loving, painful, and beautiful. All are in direct opposition of the novel: fast, grotesque, haunting, vile. The novel is a landmark because Cora is so violent, bratty, and headstrong. She’s less of a hero, and more a victim of her own misdeeds. I don’t get that here. Instead, I get a magnum opus of black excellence, running parallel with modern sensibilities. 

If you are a barry jenkins purist, this is the one. If you are not, I cannot imaging you getting through episode 5. But I’m sure glad that I did

Straziante, spirituale, onirico ed epico, The Underground Railroad segna una nuova vetta per l’acclamato regista di Moonlight e If Beale Street Could Talk, che traspone l’omonimo romanzo in un’epopea di dieci puntate che diventa una testimonianza cinematografica delle più fini e potenti che si possano trovare, una sorella speculare e antitetica di Birth of a Nation di D.W. Griffith che tra il falso storico e il vero umano racconta una storia di fondamentale importanza per gli Stati Uniti. Jenkins va ben oltre una didascalica lista di orridi crimini ben noti e barbaramente compiuti dall’America schiavista, partendo da vicende incredibilmente essenziali, piccole e quotidiane che si trovano in una stasi di “vera finzione” tutta loro e vengono tristemente interrotte dall’assurda e inconcepibile realtà di quanto accadeva all’epoca. Un documento artistico e (non smetterò mai di sottolinearlo) puramente cinematografico così importante non lo si vedeva dal tanto inutilmente controverso 12 Anni Schiavo di Steve McQueen.

Straziante, spirituale, onirico ed epico, The Underground Railroad segna una nuova vetta per l’acclamato regista di Moonlight e If Beale Street Could Talk, che traspone l’omonimo romanzo in un’epopea di dieci puntate che diventa una testimonianza cinematografica delle più fini e potenti che si possano trovare, una sorella speculare e antitetica di Birth of a Nation di D.W. Griffith che tra il falso storico e il vero umano racconta una storia di fondamentale importanza per gli Stati Uniti. Jenkins va ben oltre una didascalica lista di orridi crimini ben noti e barbaramente compiuti dall’America schiavista, partendo da vicende incredibilmente essenziali, piccole e quotidiane che si trovano in una stasi di “vera finzione” tutta loro e vengono tristemente interrotte dall’assurda e inconcepibile realtà di quanto accadeva all’epoca. Un documento artistico e (non smetterò mai di sottolinearlo) puramente cinematografico così importante non lo si vedeva dal tanto inutilmente controverso 12 Anni Schiavo di Steve McQueen.

Episode 5 : 8/10

The setting and camerawork really pull through in this episode to create this limbo that Cora seems to be living on. The narrative doesn’t push itself that much within the story and focuses more on the trauma that stirs within.

Episode 5 : 8/10

The setting and camerawork really pull through in this episode to create this limbo that Cora seems to be living on. The narrative doesn’t push itself that much within the story and focuses more on the trauma that stirs within.