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The Underground Railroad: 10 - Mabel

Thus, The Underground Railroad comes full circle and delivers its final message, which has been lying dormant in between the frames and carefully dosed all throughout this magnificent series.

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The Underground Railroad: 09 - Indiana Winter

Without a doubt, this ninth chapter of The Underground Railroad utilizes its entire momentum, carefully amassed over the course of the preceding story, to deliver a stunning blow to the unsuspecting viewer.

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The Underground Railroad: 08 - Indiana Autumn

After a long odyssey of horror and dehumanization, this surely looks as though a sense of finality is nearing for the narrative as a whole.

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The Underground Railroad: 07 - Fanny Briggs

This little interlude packs just as much thematic messaging as any other episode in this wonderfully developing series, but it is almost completely confined to the sphere of themes and symbols.

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The Underground Railroad: 06 - Tennessee Proverbs

If the fifth chapter of The Underground Railroad could be seen as building up to a tipping point, both thematic and narrative, this episode heralds some form of a resolution.

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The Underground Railroad: 05 - Tennessee Exodus

This is where the progression of the main narrative and its thematic sphere running beneath the epidermis of the film intertwine most readily.

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The Underground Railroad: 04 - The Great Spirit

Following three chapters successfully building up stakes and tension in addition to amassing thematic gravity, this fourth instalment in The Underground Railroad departs from the central narrative, leaving Cora’s fate in suspended animation.

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The Underground Railroad: 03 - North Carolina

This is a pivotal episode of the series that deliberately drags the narrative further into the realm of elevated reality-adjacent dystopia emboldened by abundance of visual symbolism.

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The Underground Railroad: 02 - South Carolina

Barry Jenkins’ camera takes the necessary time to bring attention to truly shameful facets of American history and adds important colours to the growing narrative.

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The Underground Railroad: 01 - Georgia

Jenkins is able to bypass the viewers’ minds and probe his way into their souls and stir them with searing imagery of torture, rape, wholesale abuse and vehement dehumanisation.

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CANNES 2020: Sweat

Sweat is a rather effective depiction of how toxic the social media environment can be and the number of negative consequences it may entail