The first season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’sTale was not only grim and timely and captured the attention of
audiences and end-of-year awards voters for those very reasons, it also
encapsulated the entire narrative from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel.
Basically, the young series is in uncharted water from here on out. Where
season 2 goes remains to be seen, but we have our first look at the upcoming
episodes in this new trailer.
Earlier this year I reread Margaret Atwood’s speculative
fiction masterwork The Handmaid’s Tale. It had been a while,
but I was struck by how prescient and immediate and current the 1985 novel felt.
People are fond of debating which fictional dystopia we’re going to wind up
with—the frontrunners are always George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous
Huxley’s Brave New World (though the current landscape
certainly feels like a synthesis of the two).
