The Handmaid's Tale
The tv series I've just started renting is The Handmaid's Tale ...
an American dystopian drama web television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood ....
In the near future, fertility rates collapse as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution. With this chaos, the totalitarian, theonomic government of Gilead establishes rule in the former United States in the aftermath of a civil war. Society is organized by power-hungry leaders along with a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of fanaticism and newly-created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are allowed to work only in very limited roles - and not allowed to own property, handle money, or read ...
I had read the book when it came out but had never gotten around to watching the tv series. It's actually pretty good, if grim, and now, in this Trump administration, it seems to have a new relevance.
Here's a trailer ...
an American dystopian drama web television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood ....
In the near future, fertility rates collapse as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution. With this chaos, the totalitarian, theonomic government of Gilead establishes rule in the former United States in the aftermath of a civil war. Society is organized by power-hungry leaders along with a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of fanaticism and newly-created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are allowed to work only in very limited roles - and not allowed to own property, handle money, or read ...
I had read the book when it came out but had never gotten around to watching the tv series. It's actually pretty good, if grim, and now, in this Trump administration, it seems to have a new relevance.
Here's a trailer ...
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