VIDEO: First Look - Season 2 of WGN America's Hit Drama UNDERGROUND

WGN America's critically acclaimed, hit original drama UNDERGROUND, which struck a chord with viewers and ignited a social media movement, will premiere its second season on Wednesday March 8, 2017 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Watch the first trailer below!

Season two of the 10-episode, hour-long series follows an unremitting struggle for freedom within a divided America on the brink of civil war, each side vying to enact their own justice. Set in the aftermath of the Macon 7's daring attempt to stage the greatest escape in history, this group of American heroes continues on their harrowing journey to freedom, with legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman blazing the trail.

WGN America's "Underground," from creators and executive producers Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, and executive producers and Academy Award(R) winners John Legend and Akiva Goldsman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

"Underground" was honored as the first public program presented at the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The series was also honored with Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News' Diversity in Television & Video Award, for the cast and creative team's contributions to the celebration of diversity and inclusion on television. "Underground" was nominated for a TCA Award for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association and won three CableFax Awards, including Best New Program, Best Historical Show/Series and Best Showrunners, Misha Green and Joe Pokaski.

The celebrated "Underground" cast includes: Jurnee Smollett-Bell ("Friday Night Lights," The Great Debaters) as Rosalee, a shy and sheltered house slave called to show courage she never believed she had; Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, Hidden Figures) as Noah, driven and restless for freedom he's willing to die for; Jessica de Gouw ("Arrow," "Dracula") as Elizabeth Hawkes, an Ohio socialite who shares the abolitionist ideals of her husband, John, but is wary of what acting on those ideals will mean for their future family; Alano Miller (Loving, "Atlanta") as Cato, a cunning and charismatic slave driver, despised and feared by his fellow slaves. His moral compass is as flexible as his loyalties; Christopher Meloni ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For") as August Pullman, a secretive man who walks a tightrope between morality and survival; Amirah Vann ("Girls," And So It Goes) as Ernestine, the head house slave who will do anything to protect her children; and Marc Blucas ("Blue Bloods") as John Hawkes, an abolitionist lawyer who will break the laws he's sworn to uphold in order to serve what he knows to be right.

 

 

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