The most terrifying part of The Handmaid's Tale isn't that it could someday happen — it's that it's already happening.
The first three episodes of Hulu's incredible adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel are now streaming, and while viewers have been quick to draw comparisons between the fictional dystopia of Gilead — which treats women as objects and denies them agency over their own bodies (hmm!) — and the current political climate in America, the painful truth is that many of the issues central to the series have plagued humanity from the get-go.
In fact, what made Atwood's novel so potent when it was published in 1985 — and what makes it so relevant today — is that the author didn't have to invent much of the narrative at all, as she wrote for The Guardian in 2012: Read more...
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