Five Favorite Episodes of "UNDERGROUND" Season Two (2017)

Below is a list of my five favorite episodes from Season Two of the WGN series, "UNDERGROUND". Created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, the series stars Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Aldis Hodge: 


FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES OF "UNDERGROUND" SEASON TWO (2017)

1.  (2.03) "Ache" - Underground Railroad conductor/Macon 7 fugitive slave Rosalee struggle to evade Patty Canon's slave catching band, while her mother Ernestine is haunted by her past, while adjusting to her new role as a field hand on a South Carolina Sea Island plantation.

2.  (2.08) "Auld Acquaintance" - When Rosalee's plan to rescue her younger brother James from the Macon plantation fails in the previous episode, fellow Macon 7 fugitive Noah struggles to form a new plan to save sister and brother.  Ernestine's attempt to escape from the South Carolina plantation is thwarted by slave catcher August Pullman.

3.  (2.01) "Contraband" - Rosalee and the Northern abolitionists, John and Elizabeth Hawke, scheme to prevent Noah from being convicted for the murder of an Ohio lawman and from being sent back to the Macon plantation in Georgia.

4.  (2.07) "28" - Noah helps Rosalee rescue her brother James from the Macon plantation, unaware that she is pregnant with their child.  Ernestine flees the South Carolina plantation where she was a field hand.  And fellow Macon 7 fugitive Cato, who has been captured by the Patty Canon gang, is forced to help them abduct and sell free blacks into slavery.

5. (2.09) "Citizen" - While Noah, Rosalee and James travel north from Georgia; Cato has encounters with Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Hawke and a biracial abolitionist named Georgia in Ohio; while working for Patty Canon.