'No matter what you think about people or how your political opinions differ, or your gender or how you identify, we’re all cut from the same cloth,' says 'Kindred' showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
, moving the “present day” storyline up to 2016. In this iteration, Dana is a TV writer new to Los Angeles, and she and Kevin have just started dating. Two nosy neighbors, Hermione and Carlo call the cops on the “suspicious activity” next door, and Dana’s long-lost mother makes a startling appearance. But the showrunner did his homework at the Huntington Library’sin Pasadena, and says any changes he made were “in the grain of her thinking and the grain of her impulses.
“I come from the theater and I’ve done a lot of work on slavery; in some ways, it’s been the material of my life,” he continues. “And I would say that I have a very strong belief that you should not aestheticize this violence. The sensationalism of physical violence often upstages the myriad ways in which slavery was actually far more insidious; it was a daily violence.”, the hidden gems of Butler’s archive, and how we’re all connected.
It really was about trying to really make her themes and her artistic attack and the things she was concerned about more vivid to us. I felt like she was writing to her contemporary audience. And it felt more important to me to honor that than to put everybody in bell bottoms and have them listening to Motown. And I think it does help the ideas at play feel more immediate to people, and not like a museum piece or a historical thing at a remove.
And then, inspired by my spending time with Butler’s papers, I’ve expanded on characters who are quite minor in the book. And also a character of her mother, whose name is Olivia in our series, because this show is called, and it felt like this was an opportunity to really explore Dana’s—we’re all shaped by family and our experiences with family—and I wanted to give Dana a little more dimensionality around that theme.
Well, her name wasn’t Olivia. But there was a mother character who pops up in some of the drafts. What you realize is her original impulse was to talk about inheritance and genealogy and giftedness. The two points I was thinking of were the neighbors and this concept of surveillance, for sure, but also flashing immediately from overseer to police back-to-back was jarring—which I’m sure you intended.
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