64, we cat with “Acapulco’s” Eugenio Derbez, offer streaming recommendations for your weekend, open the mail bag and more. In this week’s edition, to mark the premiere of FX on Hulu’s TV adaptation of “Kindred,” staff writer Tracy Brown points you to the Butler works worth reading - and watching - next.Īlso in Screen Gab No. But that 1979 classic is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Butler’s remarkable oeuvre and Hollywood’s planned adaptations thereof. who suddenly finds herself transported to the antebellum South - with all its concomitant dangers. That’s how the acclaimed author behind “Kindred” described her tale of Dana, a Black woman in the modern-day U.S. Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s ready for more of Octavia Butler’s brand of “grim fantasy.”
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