Sometimes, you have to time travel to help heal generational wounds. "Kindred," a new FX series on Hulu, is based on the 1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler. (All eight episodes are now streaming.) The ...

The revered novel about time travel and slavery gets a series iteration starring impressive newcomer Mallori Johnson. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic As the recent kerfuffle involving a ...

Octavia Butler created “Kindred” as a response to one of the prevailing notions in the 1970s Black Power movement regarding previous generations’ seemingly quiet forbearance under slavery and Jim Crow ...

In the new FX drama Kindred, a young Black woman named Dana finds herself time-traveling back and forth between Los Angeles in 2016 to a slave plantation in early 19th century Maryland. On some of ...

*The trailer has dropped for the highly anticipated “Kindred” series based on Octavia E. Butler’s critically acclaimed 1979 novel. FX adapted the eight-episode season, which premieres Tuesday, ...

It is hard to fully call Kindred, a new series from FX, an adaptation of the late Hugo Award-winner Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel of the same name. There is the same general premise in telling the ...

Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins discusses how the first season of "Kindred" balances genre concepts and character fundamentals to adapt Octavia Butler's novel. Time-travel stories are, inevitably, ...

The first on-screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's work should be cause for celebration. A titan of science fiction and the first writer in the genre to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Butler ...

The first trailer for FX’s adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred leans heavily into the source material’s horror ahead of the show’s December premiere. The first trailer for FX’s adaptation of ...

In his TV adaptation of the Octavia Butler novel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins changed parts of the story but kept the author’s focus on “making the familial political.” By Salamishah Tillet “If a ‘Kindred’ ...