AND THE ODDS ARE …

An Oscar-winning director’s adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about race in America, released in 2021? There are almost too many expectations to cram into one project without sinking it under the weight. But Barry Jenkins’

The Underground Railroad easily won critics over when it premiered in May. If it has a handicap, it might be visibility. Anecdotally, Hollywood players haven’t flocked to the series in the same way they have its more commercial competition.