The Underground Railroad
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In The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins creates a fabulistic yet grittily real world that doesn't pretty up violent oppression
•The world Barry Jenkins depicts is terrible, but the series is visually and emotionally rich.
The Friday List: From a children's summer workshop to Netflix thriller, The Woman in the Window, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Fp Staff •Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
The Underground Railroad review: Barry Jenkins' cinematic brilliance brings forth a tale on privilege, loss, and freedom
Shreyapaul •An incisive story on Black suffering, Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad is a prized narrative on race and equality.
The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery
Prahlad Srihari •The Underground Railroad has come to epitomise the abolitionist movement in the American consciousness, as writers compel the country to confront its darkest chapter.
The Underground Railroad series creator Barry Jenkins discusses recontextualising history of Black ancestors
•It was “the most satisfying creative experience of my life,” says Barry Jenkins on developing Amazon Prime's 10-episode show The Underground Railroad
How a rise in TV adaptations has enabled diverse voices, overlooked writers to take centre stage
•While the entertainment industry was born hungry for adaptations — a 1908 version of The Count of Monte Cristo is early proof — today’s beneficiaries include writers of color, those in the LGBTQ community and women.
Barry Jenkins on motive behind creating The Underground Railroad: 'Wanted to honour my ancestors'
•The Underground Railroad is slated to release on Amazon Prime Video on 14 May
Radhe, Toofan, Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad: What's streaming on ZeePlex, Netflix, Amazon in May
Fp Staff •From Farhan Akhtar's Toofan on Amazon Prime Video, season 2 of Love, Death + Robots on Netflix, and Salman Khan's Radhe on ZeePlex, here's what you can look forward to streaming in May.
Love Death + Robots, Annette, The Underground Railroad, The Handmaid's Tale season 4: Trailers this week
Fp Staff •From Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard's Annette to the second season of Netflix's LOVE DEATH+ ROBOTS, here are the trailers released this week
ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: Pulitzer Prize-winners Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer to speak on Day 1
Fp Staff •Keeping in tune with the focus of the 12th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival — all things science — the keynote address at the inaugural session will be delivered by the structural biologist and Nobel laureate, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan on The Role of Science in Today's World