When he turns around to face Dana, she is nowhere to be found, as she has exited the premises without a word or a sound.

Things become awkward between Kevin and Dana after an unfortunate choice of words on Kevin’s part, and as Kevin is preparing to leave at Dana’s request, she suddenly disappears from her home in the year 2016 and arrives at a plantation in Maryland in the year 1815.ĭISAPPEARS? HOW?: She disappears in the blink of an eye, as Kevin is putting on his clothes with his back to her and attempting to apologize. After meeting her aunt Denise (Eisa Davis) and Denise’s husband, Alan (Charles Parnell), at a restaurant so she can break the news to them (which they don’t respond to very enthusiastically), she strikes up a relationship with their waiter, a white man named Kevin (Micah Stock), who offers her a ride home when her phone battery dies. WHAT IS THIS SERIES ABOUT?: Dana James (Mallori Johnson) is an up-and-coming writer who sells her late grandmother’s brownstone in Brooklyn and uses the money to buy a home in Los Angeles so that she can pursue a career in writing for television. There will be spoilers in this review of Kindred, so you should know that before going any further. It is about a young Black woman who finds herself repeatedly transported from her home in the year 1976 to a Maryland slave plantation in the year 1815, and her attempts to find out why this is happening, and how to make it stop. Butler, who wrote numerous sci-fi novels that inspired many other Black writers, helped to inspire the concept of Afrofuturism, and gave Black fans of sci-fi the worthwhile representation they had been looking for in the genre. It was written by the late, great Octavia E. SO WHAT SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT THIS SERIES BEFORE READING YOUR REVIEW?: Kindred is a science-fiction novel that was published in 1979.

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