For Kevin, Dana’s sleepwalking and late night screaming might mean she’s having a breakdown of some kind. In this sudden environment, Dana experiences the oppression of slavery while finding herself having to save Rufus (David Alexander Kaplan), the son of the plantation overlord, Thomas ( Ryan Kwanten). What Dana is keeping secret is that she has been awakening in her new house inside vivid, terrifying dreams that seem to take her back to a slave plantation in the 19th century. She finds escape with Kevin ( Micah Stock), a nice waiter who soon becomes more than just a friend. Dana is an orphan with the closest thing to a mother being her aunt, who is upset over the sale of the house. Her goal is to break into screenwriting for soaps, even if she hasn’t figured out screenwriting itself yet. The story is updated to 2016 where we meet Dana ( Mallori Johnson), a young Black American woman who has sold her grandmother’s New York City house to move to Los Angeles. This FX production, streaming on Hulu, does well in bringing the concept to life, even if some of its spirit is lost in the material now being overly expanded for a whole series. Time travel and reckoning with America’s slave history is now a common combination of themes. The original novel on which it is based was published 43 years ago, and now seems ahead of its time. “ Kindred” comes with plenty of material tailor made for our cultural moment. So it must have been a no-brainer to adapt one of the most renowned works by Black American sci-fi author Octavia E. Producers or showrunners assume if the book is acclaimed, then half the work of crafting an enticing story has already been done. Great novels are always natural candidates for good films and TV. Butler’s Riveting Novel About Time Travel and Slavery Discovering the Island of Cuba: Havana and Beyond.
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