The science fiction series Kindred was released as an exclusive series on the streaming service Hulu. All eight episodes were released on December 13, 2022.
Created by showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kindred is based on Octavia Butler's 1979 novel of the same name. The series stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and David Alexander Kaplan as the main role.
In 2016, a young black woman and aspiring writer Dana James (Johnson) has just moved to Los Angeles to be close to her Aunt Denise (Eisa Davis), her only surviving relative. As Dana begins to settle into her new home, she is pulled back and forth in time and ends up on a 19th-century plantation in the Antebellum South. She is confronted with secrets she didn't know were in her blood.
Kindred generated a 59% rating based on critics' reviews, while 88% of the Rotten Tomatoes audience gave the film a thumbs up. In the end, the viewership probably wasn't strong enough to convince FX to order a second season.
Sources report that Jacobs-Jenkins is expected to sell Kindred to other outlets as he envisioned a three- or four-season series. The first season took up about a third of the Butler novel's material.