Has everyone watched "The Handmaid's Tale"?

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If you haven't seen it, there is no time like the present. It gives you some idea of what a "Christian Reconstructionist" America could look like. Its pretty awful. I know some people think its a show for women, but its for everyone. And it seems more relevant than ever.

The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series was ordered by the streaming service Hulu as a straight-to-series order of ten episodes, for which production began in late 2016. The plot features a dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic, totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series)

[enid602]

1. Handmaiden's Tale

We loved the books and the series. Now it looks like we might get to LIVE it.

[Demobrat]

2. I read the book when it first came out.

I will never watch the movie.

[H2O Man]

12. "

[Liberal In Texas]

17. Same here. Read it when it was first out but never watched the TV show.

[Lunabell]

3. No.

I read it decades ago and just can't stomach watching it. It just makes me sick.

[proud patriot]

4. yup , a couple of times through

scary stuff

[Tetrachloride]

5. I don't own a TV

most stuff isn't worth the time.

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6. There is a book and a movie.

There were 5 seasons on Hulu, and a 6th will be released in 2025.

Its disturbing, but its well written and acted.

[Big Blue Marble]

7. There was a movie made in 1990/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(film)


I saw it. It followed novel very closely while the series expanded the
premise considerably.

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8. Thanks. I never even heard of it.

[Big Blue Marble]

9. To be fair, that was a long time ago.

And the series got far more attention especially after Trump's election.
Not sure It is a good time to watch the series right now, way too anxiety
producing. There will be enough of that in real life events.

[Hekate]

10. I read the book in 1985 & it was very disturbing. I couldn't bring myself to watch the movie series...

…altho I was glad when apparently-massive numbers of young women discovered the movie.

I HIGHLY recommend either or both to all. The future — is now.

[Meowmee]

11. No

I have seen bits and of pieces of it here and there. I’m not going to watch it. It’s not something I’m interested in and I don’t need it to tell me anything that I don’t already know.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. "It gives you some idea of what a 'Christian Reconstructionist' America could look like."

Black women lived the life in the Handmaid's Tale for decades. That's the point.

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14. Agreed, but

didn't we all think it couldn't happen here, ever again?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Black people didn't. They see this country clearly.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. I watched the first season

That was all I could take. It was just so depressing.

[Takket]

18. i'd get too angry watching it. i heard there was an awful lot of sexual assault in it

[jalan48]

19. I watched the first season. I thought the movie (1990) was better.

[arthritisR_US]

20. My daughter and and I have a we totally agree with you!👍🏼

[Trueblue1968]

21. I wish it was free to watch.

[mucholderthandirt]

22. Well, there are ways, which I won't discuss as it's illegal and not worth the worry.

At any rate, you might find the book in a library, somewhere. That's were I first read it, not long after it was published. I knew immediately that some day the premise would come to pass, and here we are.

One thing I'd like to point out is that most men were killed, if they couldn't escape. The rest were either in on it, or put to work as slaves, along with infertile, ugly or otherwise disruptive women. So, these men who seem to think there's a place for them in this new, anti-woman world? Yeah. There isn't. Sooner or later, you'll be deemed disruptive, unnecessary or otherwise removed. Can't have those not worthy wanting fertile women for themselves, now can we?

[Trueblue1968]

23. I read the looooooong ago. I am talking a out watching the series. We dont have netflix

[Hekate]

26. The book is all over the place in different editions. There's even a graphic version I got at Amazon...

…for under $10 recently. It’s…graphic.

[Vinca]

24. It was something I planned to watch on Hulu, then I watched something else - forget what it was -

starring the actress who plays the main character and thought she was a terrible actor so I haven't watched it. How does the series compare to the book? Sometimes watching a TV or movie adaptation is very disappointing.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. I've read the book, and seen the movie, but not the series.

It ain't science fiction anymore.

[Timeflyer]

27. Atwood's follow-up to "Handmaid's Tale", her 2019 book, "The Testaments" goes into the foundation of Gilead.

The audio Playaway version is narrated by some of the actresses from the HT series.

[Glorfindel]

28. I read the book when it was first published.

I've never seen the TV series.

[Dulcinea]

29. No, but I read the book a long time ago.

I was a new mom. When I read the part where they took her daughter away, I went into my baby's room & cried quietly but uncontrollably as I watched her sleep.