The Biggest Lesson of the Handmaid’s Tale? Silence Is Complicity.
So, it’s here. The show that will launch a thousand think pieces (including this one — sorry). Is it true to the book? Is it feminist? Is it prophetic? Will Mike Pence consider it a how-to manual?
Setting aside whether Margaret Atwood is some kind of prophet (since November, I’ve often felt like I’ve been living simultaneously in the early pages of The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake), the show is stunning.
I’ll spare you the fawning over lens filters and camera pans. Though the technical aspects of the show are gorgeous, there are others far more qualified to discuss them.
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