One of 2021’s best shows | What to Watch

This weekend, Vox critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff and film critic Alissa Wilkinson recommend you dive into the first few episodes of Amazon Prime Video’s 10-episode miniseries The Underground Railroad.

Directed by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, the series adapts Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel about a young woman escaping slavery by traveling on a literal underground railroad, with a train and everything. The series is a mesmerizing adaptation of a wonderful novel, and it’s one of the best TV shows of the year so far.

All 10 episodes are available on Amazon Prime Video. Episodes range in length from 20 minutes to 77 minutes. (Yes, really. But trust us — it works)

Read Emily’s review of The Underground Railroad.

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- Hosts: Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) and Emily VanDerWerff (@emilyvdw)

- Producer: Taylor Maycan (@taylormaycan)

- Engineer: Paul Mounsey

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