Trepidation might explain why boundary-breaking scribe Octavia Butler’s Kindred, despite its iconic literary status, has never been adapted to the screen until this upcoming FX-produced Hulu series. Heck, The Underground Railroad is science fiction in its own odd way.Ĭast: Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, David Alexander Kaplan, Sophina Brown, Sheria IrvingĬreator: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, from the novel by Octavia Butler
Remember a few years ago when a pair of alternate histories based on the Civil War were announced and then disappeared, one amid immediate criticism (HBO’s Confederate) and the other amid general curiosity (Amazon’s Black America, from Aaron McGruder)? Yet we’ve still seen the Holocaust play a key role in series built around time travel ( Russian Doll), vampires ( The Strain), serial killers ( The Patient) and action-driven revenge ( Hunters), while more viewers likely learned about the Tulsa Massacre through superhero ( Watchmen) and horror ( Lovecraft Country) shows than ever read about it in school. Using unfathomable horrors from the real world as a grounded backdrop for occasionally fantastical genre pieces is a well-established minefield. As the recent kerfuffle involving a producer of Apple TV+’s Emancipationbringing an 1863 photograph of a horrifyingly abused slave to a red-carpet premiere reminded us, trauma is not a thing to be treated glibly, regardless of intent.
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