So glad to be able to come back after writing the lyrics for Season 1's Get Out songs (Sunken Place and My White Liberal Parents). Sukari Jones Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - Goodreads
Screenwriter, Musical Theater Lyricist and Playwright kinda! Kindred - Season 1
: Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins shifted the "present-day" setting from the 1970s (the novel's era) to 2016 to better reflect contemporary race and gender dynamics. So glad to be able to come back
The series follows (Mallori Johnson), an aspiring television writer who has recently moved to Los Angeles. Her life is upended when she begins to be violently pulled through time to a 19th-century Maryland plantation. She soon discovers her survival is linked to Rufus Weylin , the young son of the plantation owner and a direct ancestor she must protect to ensure her own existence. Key Characters & Themes She soon discovers her survival is linked to
: Dana’s love interest (played by Micah Stock) who is inadvertently pulled into the past with her. His experience as a white man in the antebellum South provides a sharp contrast to Dana’s struggle.
: A modern woman forced to navigate the horrors of slavery while trying to maintain her sense of self and agency.