Hulu’s upcoming adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s speculative
fiction classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, couldn’t be timed any
better. Unless maybe it debuted late next week. We’ve seen a few stills, but
today brings our first look at actual footage. Check out the first trailer
below.
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).
