Screening followed by a Q&A with Aldis Hodge, Alano Miller and Amirah Vann.
Moderated by Creators/Writers/Executive Producers Joe Pokaski and Misha Green.
SYNOPSIS
Set in a desperateand dangerous time, WGN America’s “Underground” tells the story of revolutionaries of the Underground Railroad who use their ingenuity, power and perseverance to attempt the greatest escape in history despite the dire consequencesthat awaited them on the other side. The provocative and compelling series focuses on a group of courageous men and women who band together for the fightof their lives—for their families, their future and their freedom.
In the premiere episode, “The Macon 7,” written by series creators and executive producers Misha Green and Joe Pokaski and directed by Anthony Hemingway, Noah (Aldis Hodge) is determined to escape fromthe Macon Plantation. After his first attempt to run is disguised as getting lost, despite traveling a route he had been on many times before, he begins to collect crucial information as well as brings together a team of fellow slaves to join him on his next attempt. Meanwhile, Tom (Reed Diamond) and Suzanna Macon (Andrea Frankle), owners of the Macon Plantation, plan a lavish party to celebrate their daughter Mary’s (Mary Duhon)birthday and to launch Tom's senatorial campaign. John Hawkes (Marc Blucas), a frustrated abolitionist lawyer, is approached about joining the group coordinating the Underground Railroad activities, but he and his wife Elizabeth (Jessica de Gouw) are hesitant to become involved. A tragic event on the plantation and a desire to see life beyond the main house walls, motivates house servant Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) to consider joining theother runners. During his travels just beyond the Macon Plantation, August Pullman (Christopher Meloni) hides a runaway slave from patrolling bounty hunters, but his intentions are unclear; and Noah finds himself at odds with Cato (Alano Miller), the plantation’s cunning slave driver.
