The premise of WGN America's new drama, Underground, is simple: seven slaves at a plantation in Georgia are ready to break out and make the 600-mile run for freedom in the North -- a journey inevitably fraught with peril. Underground stands out in the execution of this story, but the series doesn't always deliver on its promise in the pilot episode.
Coming from Misha Green (Sons of Anarchy, Helix) and Joe Pokaski (Heroes), Underground isn't afraid to embrace the modern age. The opening scene is set to thumping beats of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead," and the show consistently uses popular rap and hip hop to underline the struggles that this show's character's faced two centuries ago. It's an interesting concept -- only helped by the fact John Legend is an executive producer on the project -- and it works more often than it doesn't.
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Coming from Misha Green (Sons of Anarchy, Helix) and Joe Pokaski (Heroes), Underground isn't afraid to embrace the modern age. The opening scene is set to thumping beats of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead," and the show consistently uses popular rap and hip hop to underline the struggles that this show's character's faced two centuries ago. It's an interesting concept -- only helped by the fact John Legend is an executive producer on the project -- and it works more often than it doesn't.
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