The Handmaid's Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred, Joseph Fiennes (American Horror Story: Asylum, Shakespeare In Love) as Commander Waterford, Samira Wiley (Orange is the New Black) as Moira, Max Minghella (The Mindy Project) as Nick,  Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck, Dexter) as his wife Serena Joy; O.T. Fagbenle (The Five) as Luke, Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) as Ofglen, Madeline Brewer (Orange is the New Black) as Janine and Ann Dowd (Compliance, The Leftovers) as Aunt Lydia.
 
Based on the award-winning, best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, which recently topped the best-seller’s list once again, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead –  with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
 
Margaret Atwood, the author of the classic 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale fromwhich the series has been adapted, is a consulting producer.  



Check out these links on what people are saying about this ground-breaking series:

• Times - Review: On The Handmaid's Tale, TV's Great New Heroine Is Born
  
   

• The New York Times - Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump

 

• The Loop - Another dystopian novel just hit the top of the best-seller list (and this time it’s Canadian)

• Entertainment Weekly - Elisabeth Moss talks the sexuality and power of Handmaid's Tale

 

• The Hollywood Reporter - 'The Handmaid's Tale' Costume Designer On Creating The Show's Timely Color-Coded Dystopia

 

• Variety - ‘‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Cast and EPs Discuss the Dystopian World in New Featurette (Watch)  

  

• Reddit - Margaret Atwood Reddit AMA

 

• Advocate - The Resistance Will Be Televised