EPISODE
SEASON
In 1857, a courageous 25-year-old slave named Noah organizes a small group of fellow slaves on Macon Plantation, with the goal of escaping to the Underground Railroad and thence to freedom. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
26 October 1973, Flint, Michigan, USA
21 June 1983, Santa Rosa, California, USA
15 February 1978, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
21 August 1962, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
18 June 1979, USA
13 March 1975, Farmville, Virginia, USA
March 08, 2016
Underground seems to have hit the sweet spot between quality and commercial potential, and between being respectful of the time it's depicting while finding a way to function as ongoing entertainment.
March 09, 2016
It is hard to imagine a more inherently gripping premise than escaping slaves, but Underground tosses in pop music, lurid sex scenes, and a breakneck pace, undermining its own ambition.
March 09, 2016
The essence of Underground is both wrenching and eye-opening.
January 23, 2017
Underground will give you a frenetic and dramatic history lesson that will have your heart pulsing.
August 16, 2016
It's an escape drama... with all the tension and action-show drama that comes with it. But it's also about the lives of African-American slaves in the antebellum American South...
March 08, 2016
Underground is a thriller, an adventure yarn, before it's a Brussels sprouts message drama. Perhaps that's why Underground may not find itself an Emmy contender, but why it ought to be able to attract an enthusiastic audience.
April 18, 2016
Underground is not a perfect show, but it's one that makes me want everybody else to be better.
March 10, 2016
The characters of the slaves are sharply drawn, the action riveting and the mood not always grim. Hodge and Smollett-Bell are magical together. All that makes Underground an important series that doesn't feel like medicine going down.
March 09, 2016
Underground makes palpable the fear, frustration and rage of those trapped in a system denying them any control over their lives.
