TV Flash On air
Red carpet heat. Streaming secrets. The shows that made history. Tonight’s desk · Wed, Oct 14, 2026
Hot

The Underground Railroad

Season 1

10 listed hours · 2021 · Prime Video

← All seasons · Show package

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report

Watch Barry Jenkins's full formal control across ten episodes of Colson Whitehead: Cora on a literal underground railroad through alternate American states. Thuso Mbedu carries surreal history as visual scripture. Schedule it with care — essential, heavy, a literary adaptation that refuses comfort.

TV Flash files Season 1 of The Underground Railroad (2021) on Prime Video as the only listed season — 10 listed hours, 2021-05-14 from “Chapter 1: Georgia” (S01E01) to “Chapter 10: Mabel” (S01E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 Chapter 1: Georgia

    Chapter 1: Georgia as Barry Jenkins's formal door: Colson Whitehead literalized, Thuso Mbedu already carrying surreal history as visual scripture.

  2. S01E10 Chapter 10: Mabel

    Chapter 10: Mabel as the close: ten episodes ending on a name, Jenkins still in full control, no simplification of the alternate American states.

  3. S01E03 Chapter 3: North Carolina

    Chapter 3: North Carolina as a state-as-system hour: the railroad still literal, the craft still image-first, not a textbook recitation.

  4. S01E06 Chapter 6: Tennessee - Proverbs

    Chapter 6: Tennessee - Proverbs as the titled wisdom: Jenkins pairing place and verse, still schedule-it-carefully television, still no spectacle addiction.

  5. S01E08 Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn

    Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn as late-run season: a free-state weather, Mbedu still the center, Whitehead's engine still refusing a simple north-star.

  1. S01E01

    Chapter 1: Georgia

    When Caesar convinces Cora to escape from Randall plantation in Georgia their lives are irrevocably changed. They discover the impossible in an underground railroad which takes them on an unexpected journey and reveals the true face of America.

  2. S01E02

    Chapter 2: South Carolina

    Griffin, South Carolina – a seeming paradise of progress and racial harmony that hides dark secrets, especially the secrets of "Bessie" and "Christian." Meanwhile, bounty hunter Arnold Ridgeway begins his pursuit of Cora.

  3. S01E03

    Chapter 3: North Carolina

    Cora reaches a dangerous small town in North Carolina where she must secret away in an abolitionist's attic while putting everyone's lives in danger.

  4. S01E04

    Chapter 4: The Great Spirit

    A young Arnold Ridgeway comes of age while testing his belief in The Great Spirit.

  5. S01E05

    Chapter 5: Tennessee - Exodus

    Captured by Ridgeway, Cora is forced to travel across the barren inferno of Tennessee. She shares the perilous journey with Jasper, a noble runaway filled with inner-strength.

  6. S01E06

    Chapter 6: Tennessee - Proverbs

    For Arnold Ridgeway, a journey home reveals that "the past is not past." And a chance encounter with a freedman named Royal gives Cora new hope.

  7. S01E07

    Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs

    Let the fire burn.

  8. S01E08

    Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn

    Royal brings Cora to Valentine Farm, a thriving Black community and vineyard on the bountiful Indiana frontier. Carrying the scars of her journey, Cora struggles to find peace in this new home.

  9. S01E09

    Chapter 9: Indiana Winter

    Cora's presence as a fugitive ignites tensions amongst the Valentine community. Just as she was beginning to make this her home, chaos reigns.

  10. S01E10

    Chapter 10: Mabel

    In this tale of motherhood, the beginning is the end is the beginning... for both mother and daughter.

More from the 2020s.