'It is absolutely wild that it has taken nearly half a century for Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel 'Kindred' to be adapted for the screen,' writes judyberman
), moves deftly between genres and moods. It opens on a chilling, flash-forward vignette. We see Dana lying on the floor of her darkened home, wearing only underwear and a bloody tank top, crying out for someone named Kevin. She collects knives from the kitchen, runs a bath and salts the water, gets in the tub without undressing. The cops show up and demand to check on her. It sounds like they’re about to break down the door.
Then we meet the smart, charming if unmoored Dana of two days earlier. At dinner with her kind aunt and cranky uncle , who are now her only living relatives, she announces that she’s moved to their city permanently and is surprised to find they disapprove of her choice to uproot herself and chase a dream. The meal goes so poorly that she refuses a ride home and ends up in the car with their waiter, Kevin . So begins the rom-com portion of the program.
Still, in moving between the present and the antebellum past, where Dana and later Kevin can only survive by adhering to the norms of Rufus’ parents’ (
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