A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway ( Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. In the premiere, Cora is told that she will see America as she looks out the window of the train, and the arc of the series fulfills that in a sense as she's taken across the country, first to a community that seems safer but harbors dark secrets and through the heartland of the nation in a way that makes her confront her past and future. “The Underground Railroad” is the story of Cora ( Thuso Mbedu), a slave on a Georgia plantation in the mid-1800s who escapes with another slave named Caesar ( Aaron Pierre) and finds her way to the Underground Railroad, reimagined here as an actual rail system complete with conductors, engineers, and trains. Having said that, I would not advise viewers to binge watch this series in a weekend and think Amazon would have been wiser to release episodes weekly, allowing each of them to be absorbed in a way that binging doesn’t do. This is an experience that shouldn't be rushed. The very structure of “The Underground Railroad” speaks to Jenkins’ ambition, one that somehow feels both episodic in that any of the ten chapters could be deconstructed on their own and often have standalone stories but the project gains its strength when seen as a comprehensive whole. Some of the chapters are nearly feature-length, and could be analyzed and appreciated on their own, not unlike something like “ The Dekalog” or “ Small Axe.” Jenkins has been given complete freedom in terms of structure with episodes running as long as 77 minutes and the shortest coming in just under 20 minutes, more than half of which has no dialogue. She lives in Carnation, Washington.Based on the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad” is a story divided into ten chapters, but not in a traditional episodic manner.
Demi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started drawing at an early age. Her book The Empty Pot was selected by former First Lady Barbara Bush in 1990 as one of the books to be read on the ABC Radio Network Program Mrs. She is the author and illustrator of many children's books, including Firebird, The Dalai Lama, Buddha, and The Dragon’s Tale.
Demi, along with her husband, Tze-si Huang, has been a practicing Buddhist for more than twenty years.
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