Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, you have to time travel to help heal generational wounds. "Kindred," a new FX series on Hulu, is based on the 1979 ...

In Octavia Butler’s novel, Dana (Mallori Johnson) and Kevin (Micah Stock) are married. In the FX on Hulu adaptation, they meet in the first episode. “I didn’t want people to feel safe about their ...

It's impossible to overstate the impact of Octavia E. Butler. Throughout her writing career, the science fiction legend gifted us with prophetic dystopias, like in Parable of the Sower; twists on ...

For the first time since it was published in 1979, Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed sci-fi novel, Kindred, has been adapted for TV. More specifically, the novel is the source material for an ...

The first trailer for FX’s adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred leans heavily into the source material’s horror ahead of the show’s December premiere. The first trailer for FX’s adaptation of ...

Mallori Johnson stars as Dana in "Kindred" (Richard Ducree/FX) For playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who identifies himself as a “super fan” who aims to amplify the things he loves on the big screen, ...

Kindred follows Dana James (Mallori Johnson), “a young Black woman and aspiring writer. who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for ...