Underground Railroad Season 2 Updates: The Underground Railroad is a wonderful television series based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the same name. Barry Jenkins is a superb storyteller who tells beautiful, innovative, and emotional stories.
The drama is based on Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel and follows Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), who escapes a Georgia plantation for the Underground Railroad – a very real and complicated railway built by engineers, not a conceptual network.
Ridgeway, a bounty hunter who is still furious because he was never able to find Cora’s mother, is someone she avoids as she heads toward safety.
Jenkins told Town & Country that he has always believed that telling Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story in a short series would be the ideal way to do it. Jenkins explained how he originally offered his concept to Whitehead in 2016, saying, he figured that a lot of people were probably talking to Colson about The Underground Railroad.
He directly said that he doesn’t want to make this a feature film rather make it a limited series, which he believes to be more appropriate.
Why the ‘Underground Railroad Season 2’ won’t go further?
Jenkins went on to claim that the show’s script was written in a short amount of time, which is around eight weeks by four writers other than him. Jenkins stated that everyone on the production team was aware of the significance of the tale after Amazon picked it up. He admitted to NPR that he cried on location while filming at times.
Cora and her trip are the focus of ‘Underground Railroad’, not the horrors she faces. “When the first episode is analyzed, just about seven minutes into the show, the depiction of trauma gets cleared and these two lovers standing in a field, having almost a Shakespearean dialogue in a sense gets immense love from the viewers,” Jenkins said.
In the end, Jenkins found working on the project to be uplifting, and it forced him to rethink his own relationship to his culture and the past.
The viewers witnessed the book’s plot come to life on the small screen over the course of ten episodes. It has more than justified the wait and the excitement. Of course, the question now is whether or not a second season will be produced.
However, there is always the possibility that the show will be changed further. Other shows marketed as limited series, such as Big Little Lies and The Great, have experienced this. However, everyone would have to be on board, which Jenkins does not appear to be.
