Underground
‘Underground’ Review: WGN’s Escape-from-Slavery Drama Is Packed with History, Heartbreak and Thrills
Protagonists of “Underground,” Noah (Aldis Hodge,”Straight Outta Compton” and “Leverage”) and Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett-Bell, “True Blood” and “Friday Night Lights”), are both born into slavery, a rarely-seen perspective. He’s a cunning field slave who has tried and failed in the past to escape; she’s a sheltered house slave who knows there is more to life than the heartless brutality, rape and death that surround her. Their story takes place in 1857, four years before the start of the Civil War.