'Underground' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In the mid-2010s, with streaming services on the rise and the future of cable uncertain, networks that had long relied on licensed programming scrambled to develop high-quality original series that might justify their continued existence. Although the prestige strategy couldn't save WGN America, which is now NewsNation, it did yield a few good dramas.