His agents asked him to think about potential TV adaptations. “Around that time, it was the golden age of television- Breaking Bad, Mad Men,” he recalls. For Jacobs-Jenkins, a lauded playwright and MacArthur fellow who previously worked on HBO’s Watchmen, the upcoming eight-episode first season has been a dream in the making since 2010. The show, debuting December 13 on Hulu, is created by showrunner, executive producer, and writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It’s also the opening scene for the new teaser for FX’s adaptation of Kindred, available to watch exclusively below. The scene is jarring and propulsive, setting the tone for Kindred, which sees Dana time-traveling back-and-forth between the present and the past. Dana, in spite of the dizzying time travel that brought her there, leaps into action, immediately trying to save his life. Dana, a young Black writer living in Los Angeles in 1976, is transported back in time to a riverbank in Maryland in the early 1800s, where a little white boy is drowning. Octavia Butler’s seismic sci-fi novel Kindred opens with a dark summoning.
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