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Read the book before you criticize the film
I have only watched the first episode thus far but It captures the essence of Colson Whitehead's multi award-winning book. The book got the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is not a historical narrative. It is a surrealistic exploration of the emotional, physical and financial toll the evil institution took on not only those enslaved, but the enslavers as well. It is a commentary on society in the U.S. past and present.
