Butler octavia kindred6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallori Johnson (left) in the Hulu series "Kindred." Tina Rowden/FX But the real mystery surrounds the “why” of it all, in a way that brushes up against Dana’s family history and the death of her mother when she was much younger. There, they experience first-hand views of the horrors associated with slavery, while perplexing the plantation owner (“True Blood’s” Ryan Kwanten) and others with their dress and interactions, which seem inordinately familiar for what’s supposed to be a White Southerner and his property. ![]() After meeting a guy at a local restaurant, Kevin (Micah Stock), she discovers it’s not inside her head, but rather an inexplicable ability to zap back to a nineteenth-century plantation before the Civil War, inadvertently bringing Kevin back with her. The series does begin promisingly enough, as Dana (Mallori Johnson) moves into a new house in Los Angeles and begins to experience a series of eerie visions. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of just how difficult this genre can be, offering scant compensation for the time spent watching them. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. ![]() After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. ![]()
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