FX just released the first teaser for Kindred, based on the award-winning novel by Octavia E. Butler. The nearly two-minute teaser begins with a child’s cry for help. Without giving away any spoilers, what follows that anguished cry is even more intense than the opening scene of a child being rescued from drowning.
The eight-episode first season stars Mallori Johnson as Dana James, Micah Stock as Kevin Franklin, Ryan Kwanten as Thomas Weylin, Gayle Rankin as Margaret Weylin, Austin Smith as Luke, David Alexander Kaplan as Rufus Weylin, Sophina Brown as Sarah, and Sheria Irving as Olivia. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapted Butler’s bestselling novel and serves as showrunner and executive producer.
Additional season one executive producers include Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Darren Aronofsky, and Ari Handel of Protozoa Pictures as well as Courtney Lee-Mitchell and Jules Jackson. Janicza Bravo directed the series’ pilot.
Kindred premieres on Hulu on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, with all eight episodes available at once for those into binge-watching.
The Plot:
The FX series centers on Dana James, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can settle into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time. She emerges at a nineteenth-century plantation, a place remarkably and intimately linked with Dana and her family.
An interracial romance threads through Dana’s past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the ties that bind.
