Friday, April 28, 2017

Underground the Show (WGN)

I can not talk about how great this show is and it is not because of my race but it is because of its writing, of course this show will not be given all the props it deserves, so let me give it props where I can. The past episode was so off the wall, I did not see all the twist and turns coming that they had in this last episode. From the brother that turned against his sister Roselee and refused to leave the plantation as he has became like the Mistress son, too Noah finding out that he had a baby on the way by Roselee to him killing one of the overseers before he left. It ended up with a takeover, Roselee knotting her brother upside the head, throwing him in the wagon, the Mistress tracing behind the, the Mistress real son pulling a gun out on them, Noah shooting the young boy in the leg, which cause him to shoot his own mother in the shoulder and Roselee leaving one little message before leaving all together, by blowing up the entire Master house, stating there will be no house the overseers could take her back too. Wow it was an array of action, very thrilling and on the edge of your seat suspense. I must not forgot how the underground was infiltrated by no other than Cato to get to the up-most and that is Harriet Tubman. Oh what a tangle web we weave when we practice to deceive, what will happen with this situation with Cato when he comes face to face with Harriet, only the writers of this show will know how this will go down. When you have a slave who choose to help a slave catcher, it becomes interesting, especially since his women has been put in the slave trade herself and she never had endure that life before, so why he continues to help this women, who seems to be above evil, the writers only know. One of my favorite actors on this show is Christopher Meloni who plays August, he is a bounty hunter as well of slaves but he handles the way he does his catching with a little more gentleness, and yet with that forcefulness that a man as him only can, he has played many roles in the past and has always showed, like in this serious why is is one of today's top actors, great job Christopher. Another actor that has my attention is Amirah Vann, as Ernestine, I never knew of this woman but she is playing the heck out of this role as a tough slave mother that will do whatever it takes to protect her children in a time where slaves have little protection. This women is by no mean a dummy and she lives off what she hears goes around her at the time, listen and you shall learn, yesss. Loving this show as it takes me personally through a journey of history and what could have been as I use my own imagination and learn from history past. Some people say leave the past in the past, but you can not ignore history, you have to remember and learn from it and make sure to do everything to not repeat it. Thank you Underground for all that you bring to my plate.

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