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‘Desperate and Dangerous’ Characters Make Impossible Choices in Green & Pokaski’s ‘Underground’
In a TV landscape full of police procedurals, doctor and lawyer shows, and a growing number of super hero stories, WGN America’s “Underground” is a definite outlier. It’s the story of a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom. The series was created by “Heroes” veterans Misha Green and Joe Pokaski and features a large ensemble cast including Aldis Hodge, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Christopher Meloni and Mykelti Williamson.
Green and Pokaski sat down with CBR TV’s Jonah Weiland during New York Comic Con to discuss the new series, why it was important for them to tell this story, what they learned about America while doing research and whether or not there’s a way they can speak to current events while telling a story set in the days before the Civil War.
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