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Hulu’s THT is striking a chord because of things we didn’t have when the 1985 book and the 1990 movie came out.Ītwood’s story was adapted for a 1990 theatrical film starring Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway, which didn’t generate a fraction of the buzz or critical accolades. And with a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, THT is even outperforming the long-awaited Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

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The provocative 10-episode series is riveting, beautifully unsettling TV.

And because of a fertility crisis, the few women still able to bear children are taken as handmaids–conditioned with the liberal use of cattle prods, Biblical verse, and an authoritarian “Aunt,” half drill instructor and half Sunday school teacher.Ī handmaid wears a red cape and white bonnet and regularly endures the “ceremony,” the show’s signature disturbing image: she lies between the legs of a wife, who holds her wrists while the husband has joyless, procreative, clothed sex with her. Women in Gilead are forbidden to read, have money, or own property. In a paranoid world where they have GPS trackers on their ears and anyone could be an “Eye” (short for “Eye of God”) handmaids only reveal their real, pre-Gilead names to each other furtively, on walks to and from the market as they pass routine sights of the hanged and hooded corpses of homosexuals, abortionists, and priests who operated outside the official state religion. Another handmaid, Ofglen, belongs to a patriarch named Glen. “Offred” means she’s the property of Fred–a Gilead commander (Joseph Fiennes), whose icy, Aryan-looking wife (Yvonne Strahovski) treats her harshly and suspiciously. What’s left of the United States after terror attacks and martial law has been renamed Gilead. The only real water-cooler show of this spring, THT stars Elisabeth Moss ( Mad Men, Top of the Lake) as Offred, an enslaved woman in a totalitarian theocracy. But it’s a cautionary tale with the good fortune of being uncomfortably timely, given the almost daily developments in Donald Trump’s America. I’m not saying the new Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel is an actual dramatization of the Republican Party’s 2020 official platform. Or with a particularly harrowing episode still on your mind, you read about the president expanding his global gag rule on abortions. It’s a cautionary tale with the good fortune of being uncomfortably timely. Let’s say you finish an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale and then see an article about the Senate health care task force being made up of 13 men and no women.

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