If you give this acutely self-aware show a sincere three-episode chance, it will surprise you. Mr. Corman isn’t another sad-sack dramedy; it’s a response to the genre.
As far as parables go it’s fairly straightforward, but so are the rules for survival — and Sweet Tooth shows that even those are harder to follow than we might think.
In many ways The Underground Railroad feels like less of a TV show and more of an event, the same way Alex Haley’s Roots riveted the American public, shifted Black storytelling as a visual medium, and took on…