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“Moonlight“ director Barry Jenkins is bringing his talents to the Amazon Prime Video screen to direct and produce the new limited series “The Underground Railroad,” which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead. The ten episode show tells the story of a slave named Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) who escapes a Georgia plantation through the Underground Railroad. Randall discovers the path isn’t exactly what she expected, instead it’s an actual railroad full of engineers, conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels underneath the Southern ground.