6/19/2023 0 Comments Kindred octavia butler series![]() ![]() “The first books I read were the Patternist books that start with ‘The Wild Seed,’ and they still have the most sentimental place in my heart.”īut “Kindred,” which he first read in college, stuck with him and six or eight years later while living in Berlin, Jacobs-Jenkins says he decided to pitch it as a TV project. “It was really profound because it was the first time I’d ever had a book like that with a brown-skinned person on the cover and, like, a cool landscape,” he says. ![]() Jacobs-Jenkins says he first discovered Butler’s books as a sci-fi and horror fan obsessed with Ray Bradbury and his college-student babysitter brought him several of her books. ![]() Others she meets include a pair of slaves, Luke, played by Austin Smith, and Sarah, played by Sophina Brown.Īnd in an addition to the 1979 novel, she meets there her mother Olivia, played by Sheria Irving, who apparently had experienced the same phenomenon years earlier. ![]() Its owners, Thomas and Margaret Weylin, played by Ryan Kwanten and Gayle Rankin, terrify her with their cruelty and racism. She’s terrified that she might be losing her mind until her new boyfriend Kevin, played by Micah Stock, sees her vanish and later reappear one night.ĭuring time jumps to the plantation, the year is 1815 and Dana meets its residents. In the series, Dana has just moved to Los Angeles when the time travel starts. ![]()
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