Hulu has premiered the first trailer for “Kindred,” the upcoming FX TV series adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s celebrated best-selling 1979 novel.
Mallori Johnson stars as Dana James, a young Black woman who leaves her family and moves to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a writer. She soon finds herself zipping back and forth in time on an unwelcome journey that puts her in touch with her family’s past and the dark secrets that come along with it.
As she meets with family members who came before her, the harsh realities of the 19th-century plantation she finds herself in are a constant threat to the young woman forced to make sense of the interracial love affair that threatens to tear her current life apart.
Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, David Alexander Kapla, Austin Smith, Sheria Irving and Sophina Brown co-star in the eight-episode series created by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (“Watchmen”) who also serves as an executive producer alongside Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Darren Aronofsky, and Ari Handel.
“Kindred” will release its full season entirely on Hulu on December 13th.
