![]() ![]() The truth is, of course, far more gutting. As the story goes Mabel fled the Randall plantation when her daughter was little, not a thought as to the fate of her own child alone in the bowels of Georgia. The matriarch had appeared via wordless flashback a few moments earlier and is effectively gone (but always felt) until another extended remembrance in the final episode of the Barry Jenkins–directed miniseries. She’s looking dead through the screen and her eyes are filled to the brim with anger and exhaustion and, most of all, hurt.Ĭora’s referring to her mother, Mabel. ![]() ![]() She stands in front of a pond, its water brown and steaming, framed by tree branches, their form barren and sinewy. “The first and last thing my mother gave me was apologies,” rues the runaway Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) in her first words on Amazon’s The Underground Railroad. ![]()
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