The Handmaid's Tale -

[ZepFloyd94]

Margaret Atwood's classic novel is now a Hulu original series.

From what I've seen so far, it starts off a little too slow, but it gains enough momentum to keep my interest to keep on watching as the season progresses.

 

[LordofTendons]

I watched the first four episodes last night and am going to finish the season mostly because there is nothing else on. I've read the book and am interested to see the changes and extras they do. I'm just not able to toss my suspension of disbelief out the window on this one, so this is one of those shows I'll be watching to kill time in between other shows.

 

[Deadwaste]

i was excited to see this but now i dont have hulu anymore so i cant

 

[millais]

I am watching this on a pirate stream website several months late. I don't know if they made it before Trump became president, but I am enjoying imagining libtards watching this show and making it all about Trump. It is a long time since I read the book, but it seems fairly close to the source material, so that is admirable I suppose.

 

[The Valeyard]

I don't know if they made it before Trump became president, but I am enjoying imagining libtards watching this show and making it all about Trump.

There's no need to imagine it, because it's exactly what happened.

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/feat...le-tvs-most-chilling-trump-era-series-w478718
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/en...inspired-by-trump_us_5925bf4ce4b0ec129d31a7b3
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/handmaids-tale-channel-4

 

[Fareal]

Its very well made, and Elisabeth Moss is very good in it.

I feel though that the need to stretch the book out to ten hours of film time - even with Atwood's input - has taken away from the sparseness of the book, which gave it much of its power. The sparseness of the prose and the emptiness of everything in Gilead give the novel so much of its power and menace.

I also feel like everyone talks too much. The enforced silence of Gileads women was a huge device in the novel.

Its better made than the film, but the film was more true to the novel, even impressionistically.

 

[Oats12345]

Handmaid's tale sucks and was written by a delusional woman.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I don't understand why feminist like this trash so much and warn us it's bound to happen now that Drupf is president: I thought they were tolerant of religious theocracies where women are forced into mandatory head coverings and used as sex slaves.

 

[Oats12345]

I don't understand why feminist like this trash so much and warn us it's bound to happen now that Drupf is president: I thought they were tolerant of religious theocracies where women are forced into mandatory head coverings and used as sex slaves.

the author is indeed a delusional woman. Shes been saying this would happen under every single republican president since Ronald Reagan.

 

[Yamma Damma]

Never read the book but the only reason I heard about it was an old news story from Halloween where a store removed a sexy version of the costume from their store due to outrage (despite it selling well). The irony of course is this book is about a world that polices women's bodies and here we have people in our world (who read the book) policing women's bodies.

 

[Overly Serious]

This is that series set in modern day Saudi Arabia, yes?

Snark aside, I have actually read the book. What I want to know is if Margaret Attwood still gets angry when you call her a SciFi writer.

 

[Xolanite]

I read The Blind Assassin, another book by Atwood that I didnt finish for some reason. I’m not interested in the Handmaid’s tale. it‘s supposedly a mystery novel mixed with some subplot about a novel about an ancient civilization on mars.

This is that series set in modern day Saudi Arabia, yes?

Snark aside, I have actually read the book. What I want to know is if Margaret Attwood still gets angry when you call her a SciFi writer.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The thing I don't get is that apperantly the men in this setting are, with the exception of the people at the top, fed into an endless meatgrinder war. So aren't the men the real victims here since being forced to fuck the opposite sex is preferential to dying violently? It's like the infamous quote about women being the real victims of WW2.

 

[Syaoran Li]

the author is indeed a delusional woman. Shes been saying this would happen under every single republican president since Ronald Reagan.

IIRC, Atwood originally intended it as an allegory for the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which was still a sore subject in the early 80's when the book was written. However, she used Protestant traditionalists as the main villains since the vast majority of Americans were unfamiliar with Islam in the early 1980's but were familiar with the newly emerging Religious Right at the time.

She did go batshit crazy later on and started claiming that her book would happen here every time a Republican got elected to the White House or came close to it

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Daily reminder that this is apparently our reality TODAY and that all dystopias are happening simultaneously.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I always felt there was a sexual undertone to the book. Like third wave feminists were reading it because they liked to imagine themselves in the main role, getting fucked by a rich, chiseled Nazi. Given how many feminists have confessed to having sex fantasies about Donald Trump, I can't help but think the recent TV series was related to this phenomenon.

 

[Catgirl IRL]

Men bad, women good, let's skirt around all the racial and ethnic implications of the source material.

Moss annoys the hell out of me for some reason. She seems to be under the impression she's the only woman talking about dosmetic violence.

 

[Dom Cruise]

IIRC, Atwood originally intended it as an allegory for the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which was still a sore subject in the early 80's when the book was written. However, she used Protestant traditionalists as the main villains since the vast majority of Americans were unfamiliar with Islam in the early 1980's but were familiar with the newly emerging Religious Right at the time.

She did go batshit crazy later on and started claiming that her book would happen here every time a Republican got elected to the White House or came close to it

That's the thing, the idea of something like the Iranian Revolution of 1979 happening in the US is not a bad premise at all nor is it entirely implausible, I can respect that as an interesting "what if?" idea.

But it does seem like she went crazy later on.

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Women (in general) are immensely stupid. They are not in any way fundamentally oppressed today... But they wish that they were, so much so that they gobble up fictional shit like this where women are treated as less than men like it was candy. You would be hard pressed to find a single person today (who isn't an MRA/MGTOW) who didn't believe that men and women deserved to be treated equally under the law... But you don't even have to look that hard to see that the law actually usually treats women *better* than it treats men.

 

[frozenrunner]

Moss annoys the hell out of me for some reason. She seems to be under the impression she's the only woman talking about dosmetic violence.

I wonder how she feels about having fallen into the character actor slot she's stuck in: attractive-but-not-pretty-enough-to-be-threatening "female empowerment" lead.