“I did not want to be predictable when Dana would go back and forth, which meant to me that we couldn’t have a pattern of like one episode in LA, one episode in the past - that kind of ‘Quantum Leap’ vibe,” Jacobs-Jenkins said. Having the show’s central tension come down to Dana’s character itself allowed “Kindred” to treat its time travel in a very different, less strictly causal way that most sci-fi TV shows would do. The adjustments focus the show’s attention on the ways in which the pressures of the past and Dana’s attempts to ‘solve’ her family history by protecting Rufus (David Alexander Kaplan), the son of enslaver Thomas Weylin (Ryan Kwanten), might imperil or change the person she wants to be. Choices of adaptation like these are ones that place Dana much more at a crossroads of identity than in the novel. That sense of development under pressure and over time is crucial to the protagonist of “Kindred,” Dana ( Mallori Johnson), whose ability to transport herself back to an Antebellum Maryland plantation asserts itself just as she’s trying to embark on a new career (as a “Dynasty”-loving TV writer!) in Los Angeles in 2016. ‘Kindred’ Trailer: Octavia Butler’s Time Travel Novel Comes to Terrifying Life
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