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    TELEVISION

    Jun 22, 2021 1 minute
    by Mike McCahill

    DAPTED FROM Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, feels like 2021’s first major TV event. A streaming budget has allowed director Barry Jenkins to push further did two generations ago. Certain sounds and images here—a shot from a dying man’s point of view, whipcracks that resound like thundercracks—linger in the mind long after you’ve switched off for the night. Yet Jenkins also manages to strike a balance between the brute horror of slavery and the beauty of the America into which our fugitive heroine Cora (Thuso Mbedu) escapes: a land of great promise, improperly divided. Through it all chuffs the titular proto-Tube—a flourish worthy of a fairytale, allowing us to journey through the centre of the Earth, and onwards towards the light.

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