FX’s ‘Kindred’ releases official trailer

By theGrio Staff

“Kindred,” a new drama series from FX Productions set to premiere on Hulu next month, has revealed its official trailer. The series is based on Octavia E. Butler’s Hugo Award-winning 1979 novel of the same name.

Viewers get a glimpse of what to expect in the nearly two-minute trailer. “Kindred” centers around Dana James, a young Black woman and aspiring writer, who has moved to Los Angeles after uprooting her life once full of familial obligation.

Before Dana can begin to feel at ease in her new home, she finds herself being violently pushed and pulled through time. As is teased, she goes back and forth between the present and the 19th-century plantation which she discovers is linked to her and her family.

The trailer teases “Kindred” as part drama, part suspense, part sci-fi as Dana sees images of white plantation owners one moment and her white love interest in the present day the next. The clock is ticking as she struggles to confront secrets about her bloodline.

TheGrio has the trailer.

Butler’s book examined race through the lens of science fiction, one reason why the esteemed author’s books are featured by Black bookstores.

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