After winning acclaim and Oscars for your two most recent movies, what do you next? Well, if you are Barry Jenkins, whose Moonlight won Best Picture and Original Screenplay for him, and whose If Beale Street Could Talk won an Oscar for Regina King, well you tackle the most ambitious project imaginable, but one that has been brewing and calling out your name for two decades.That would be his 10-part limited series The Underground Railroad, the epic and somewhat harrowing and fantastical story of Cora, a runaway slave who encounters the fabled Underground Railroad as she sets off on a journey to freedom.
It is all based on Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel, and has received seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Limited Series and
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