Hulu's new miniseries Washington Black is a must-watch for anyone who loves period dramas but is looking for a new take on the genre. (Or if you need your Sterling K. Brown fix while waiting for Paradise season 2.) Adapted from Esi Edugyan's acclaimed novel, Washington Black follows the titular character, a brilliant Black boy born into slavery who dreams of becoming a genius inventor. The dual storylines follow Wash both as a boy on a globe-trotting journey from Barbados to Virginia to the North Pole, and as a young man falling in love while living free in 1837 Halifax, Nova Scotia.
"[It's about] a little Black boy who refused to have his circumstances dictate his possibility and all of the people who recognize that to have a dreamer in their presence is a rare and beautiful thing, and needs to be protected at all cost," star and executive producer Brown told Marie Claire at a London junket and activation. "It doesn't matter that he's inured in the circumstances of slavery. He is going to dream what he's going to dream, until it becomes his truth."
