Other big choices abound - twists that skip replicating the book note for note but add more tension and suspense to make Butler’s work come alive in new, compelling ways. To boot, Kevin (Micah Stock) is not her husband in the series, as he is in the book, but is a guy Dana has just started dating. For starters, Dana, played by newcomer Mallori Johnson, is not a woman living in 1976, the year when the book takes place, but instead lives in 2016. Kindred takes some creative liberties with the story, making some significant detours that are not entirely faithful to their cherished text. And Kindred - which blends time travel, historical fiction, and a love story when a (then) modern-day Black woman is inexplicably whisked back and forth from her California home to a plantation in the year 1815 - is a pioneering work so revered that it’s still taught in college lit classes and has inspired enough scholarship, essays, and critical analysis to fill a whole library.įans of the book may need to find ways to soothe themselves then when the eight episodes drop on Hulu on December 13. Their anxieties were certainly understandable: Butler is considered the first Black writer to find success in the sci-fi genre. Butler’s Kindred was being adapted into a TV series for FX, fans of the 1979 novel seemed as hopeful and excited as they were territorial - glad Butler’s work was finally reaching screens but fiercely protective and adamant that nobody screw it up.
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