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SPOILER ALERT: This review includes details from the premiere episodes of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger. In short, Cloak & Dagger is trippy. It’s not Legion-level trippy, but it’s perplexing astral plane time and space travel — or whatever it is that the two teenage leads do — is enough to make a worthy and woke adaptation…

“We do so much research, and our problem is we find so many great things,” Underground co-creator Joe Pokaski said last night, discussing the second season of the WGN America series. “As we read about Harriet [Tubman] and started to understand her, we all know she's a superhero; it's about understanding her as a…

WGN America’s Underground made waves at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday by showing three powerful clips that had the audience cheering along. In attendance were series creators and executive producers Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, director Anthony Hemingway, as well as actors Alano Miller and Aisha Hinds, who…

WGN America and Sony Pictures Television have a unique contender in Misha Green and Joe Pokaski’s Underground in that it’s the first TV series that has been made about the Underground Railroad. In preparing for the project, Green was struck by the slave narratives she researched at the Library of Congress.  “These…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Safehouse Pictures have set The Signal helmer William Eubank to direct, and Underground’s Joe Pokaski to write Count. It’s a contemporary retelling of Alexandre Dumas’ revenge tale classic The Count Of Monte Cristo, set in the criminal underworld. Safehouse Pictures’ Tory Tunnell and Joby…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of  tonight's Underground Season 1 finale. With a lot of blood, cunning, bravery and vengeance, Season 1 of Underground came to an end tonight. In more ways that one, it has been a very successful run for the Misha Green and Joe Pokaski-created series about the 19th century…