Kindred

Name: Kindred
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: December 13, 2022
Rating: 64

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HULU | Release Date: December 13, 2022

Summary: Young Black aspiring writer Dana (Mallori Johnson) has just moved to Los Angeles when she is suddenly pulled back into 1800s at a planation that has ties to her family in this adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction

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Kristen Baldwin

Dec 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: It's not something one expects to binge breathlessly in a weekend. But this gripping adaptation, developed and exec produced by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), expands Butler's groundbreaking exploration of America's racist history into a profound puzzle-box thriller. ... Newcomer Johnson is absolutely mesmerizing as Dana. Read full review

Judy Berman

Dec 8, 2022

Season 1 Review: FX’s long-awaited Kindred doesn’t quite dazzle in the same way that the very best recent novel-to-TV adaptations have done. ... But this series does, for the most part, do justice to the metaphor at the center of Butler’s masterpiece. That’s another way of saying that you shouldn’t miss it. ... When Kindred really achieves excellence, it’s usually through Johnson’s extraordinary performance. Read full review

John Anderson

Dec 21, 2022

Season 1 Review: The writing is very smart, illuminating without feeling expository, and an utterly fantastic scenario is made more digestible, if not necessarily believable, because the characters behave the way people would if they found themselves in such a situation. Read full review

Ross McIndoe

Dec 8, 2022

Season 1 Review: The side-quest to find her mother never really turns up anything especially revelatory and only adds to the sense that Kindred is spinning its wheels. Read full review

Max Covill

Dec 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: Kindred never manages to improve after its intriguing pilot, one that promised a compelling mystery and plenty of tense moments. Instead, the focus is on ancillary characters that are not only obnoxious but lifeless as well, and spends the bulk of the story down on the plantation. Ultimately, this is a mystery that I won’t be returning to find out the answers to. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Dec 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: The character work, the chemistry between Johnson and Stock, and the sense of creeping dread that comes from her brief journeys to the plantation are all very effective early on — almost too effective. Once the season evolves from toggling back and forth between the two eras and devotes itself to a few extended stays in 1815, Kindred quickly begins to drag, as if it doesn’t want to be in this time and place any more than Dana or Kevin initially do. Read full review

The Daily Beast Allegra Frank

Dec 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: The show, created by playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, plops Butler’s themes into a centrifuge and spits out a gray, cold, unappealing mush of an eight-hour drama. Read full review

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TVJerry

Jan 7, 2023

This premise recalls last year's movie Antebellum (my review), where a modern Black woman found herself enslaved on a 19th century plantation. This series is actually based on a 1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler, but with a similar theme. In this case, the modern woman is played by MalloriThis premise recalls last year's movie Antebellum (my review), where a modern Black woman found herself enslaved on a 19th century plantation. This series is actually based on a 1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler, but with a similar theme. In this case, the modern woman is played by Mallori Johnson, who captures the confusion, shock and sadness with earnest depth. When she finds herself suddenly travelling between today and the 1830s, the major difference is that the typical tropes of slave torture are minimized for a more psychological approach. A whole new dynamic emerges when her white boyfriend ends up back in time with her (Micah Stock who makes awkward work). After a slow start, the series develops into a tense thriller that depicts yet another variation on the horrors of slavery. Warning: It ends with a cliffhanger, so don't expect a gratifying finale.… Expand

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Season 1

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  Air Date: December 13, 2022
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