REVIEW: The new FX drama Kindred, adapted from Octavia Butler’s celebrated 1979 novel, has little to say about the horrors of the past.
a young Black woman named Dana finds herself time-traveling back and forth between Los Angeles in 2016 to ain early 19th century Maryland. On some of these trips, Dana takes along Kevin , a white man she has only just started dating, out of an understandable fear of being in that time and place on her own. For the most part, both are horrified to be there.
Viewers watching the series, which playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has adapted from Octavia Butler’s acclaimed 1979 novel, may find themselves having the opposite reaction. Though the show spends the bulk of its time on the plantation, it feels far more vivid, complex, and interesting during our periodic glimpses of the modern world.
The premiere episode, written by Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Janicza Bravo , takes place largely in 2016. Dana has struggled to find direction and peace since her parents died in a car crash, and has recently decided to sell the family brownstone in New York, buy a house in LA, and attempt to break into the TV business as a writer.
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