It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The premise is great. The underground railway, the people that escaped slavery and those that helped and hindered them. This is an era and perspective little explored on tv. Unfortunately, it is treated too much like a teen drama (even some of the cast is familiar as such). Over loud and nonsensical music choices have you reaching for the volume every few minutes. It is sanitised and silly rather than gritty and engaging. The shame is that tv drama is many people's only exposure to history - and this is not teaching the viewer anything. It is moderately entertaining though and well acted for the most part - just watch with the sound down!

I've read many reviews by others pointing out the attire of the slaves and the music score not being authentic to the times. I saw ROOTS when it first aired in the 70's. While there was controversy then , there will be controversy with the story-line and attire and musical performances now in the 2000's. This story could be more factual at best if there had been more torture scenes but what good would that idealism have done to the audience. I have enjoyed the way this story-line has been presented. The words in the songs told a bit more than another scene could have done in the story-line. I and my 2 sons thoroughly enjoy UNDERGROUND.

I agree with a few people up here that yes the music doesn't go well to the time error that these events took place. As soon as i heard the music ex: the dream(I was like nooooo). Also anytime The History of slavery was ever told there are also a lot of facts left out that people don't know unless they read like once the babies were born they slave masters would stomp them to death and laugh about it,or when a male slave would disobey his master he would be roped to four horses and then they would make the horses run and split his body in half and make the wife and child watch. Just some facts that are truth and to some extent should be told in these documentaries if they want to keep to the truth as much as possible. But overall I look forward to watching more episodes and cant wait to see Harriet Tubman Do Her THING!!

For a show claiming to be an historical account of slavery and the struggle of slaves for freedom, this show leaves out any political context of the time. One of the main characters is running for the Senate and yet there is no mention of his political party. I find this very suspect, as ALL slave owners were DEMOCRATS. To tell the story of slavery, you must include the politics that allowed it to exist. This is an entertaining show but lacking any "will" to explore the truth.