Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

showrunner of “Kindred”

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“Kindred,” Octavia Butler’s novel-turned-TV series, follows a young Black woman who lives in LA in the present but is hurtled back to Antebellum Maryland seemingly at random moments.

In new TV adaptation, ‘Kindred’ shows what happens when you forget the past

“Kindred,” Octavia Butler’s novel-turned-TV series, follows a young Black woman who lives in LA in the present but is hurtled back to Antebellum Maryland seemingly at random moments.

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