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.
I cancelled my Hulu subscription recently. There’s great
stuff available, but between other services and an increasing lack of free
time, I simply didn’t use it enough to justify another expense. But I think I
jumped the gun, based largely on The Handmaid’s Tale. Their adaptation
of Margaret Atwood’s all-too-plausible dystopian nightmare already had my
attention, but holy hell, this new trailer is all of the fire emojis.
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).
