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The Underground Railroad
Available now, Prime Video
“IF YOU WANT to see what this nation’s all about, you gotta ride the rails,” crows a station agent who welcomes aboard two desperate runaway slaves, Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre). “Just look outside as you speed through and you’ll see the true face of America.” It’s not a pretty face, to put it mildly, and the subterranean train—the invention of Colson Whitehead from his searing Pulitzer Prize–winning novel —is a macabre manifestation of the pipeline of clandestine homes that
