Kindred’s first trailer channels Octavia Butler’s brilliance into horror

Mallori Johnson as Dana James.

The beauty of Octavia Butler's Kindred is how the novel frames empathy and care for others as forces powerful enough to move people through space and time. But the first trailer for FX's upcoming series based on the book makes it seem like this take on Kindred's going to be much more focused on scaring viewers with the horrors of time-traveling while Black.

Kindred tells the story of writer Dana (Mallori Johnson) and her partner Kevin (Micah Stock), an interracial couple who've just moved into a new home in Los Angeles. While both Kevin and Dana are excited to begin the next chapter of their lives together in a new city, the unshakable unease Dana feels as she tries to settle in LA soon reveals itself to be much more than just a feeling....

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