There was a decent film adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale in 1990.
This television adaptation would expand on Margaret Atwood's novel and allow it too breath. Atwood makes a brief appearance in the first episode.
However this being US television you just know the series would go on and on getting further away from the kernel of the original story.
The first episode carries on the Dystopian themes of the book. A critique of those who hypocritically advocate traditional values and fundamentalism not only in America but in places in the Middle East.
In a society where the fertility rate has fallen. Offred (Elisabeth Moss) who in a previous society was called June is effectively a slave to the Waterford family.
The Handmaid is assigned to be impregnated by Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) as his wife Serena Joy watches on. She is both repulsed and envious of Offred.
The first episode had a good setting of a theocratic based feudal society, you are always being watched, you could always be reported by someone close to you.
Rebellion is not tolerated. Public hangings are common.
Moss gives a good performance of someone caught in a trap, she wants to rebel but she is also regarded as being pious. She had a life before all this, a husband and daughter, as well as her own name and identity.
This television adaptation would expand on Margaret Atwood's novel and allow it too breath. Atwood makes a brief appearance in the first episode.
However this being US television you just know the series would go on and on getting further away from the kernel of the original story.
The first episode carries on the Dystopian themes of the book. A critique of those who hypocritically advocate traditional values and fundamentalism not only in America but in places in the Middle East.
In a society where the fertility rate has fallen. Offred (Elisabeth Moss) who in a previous society was called June is effectively a slave to the Waterford family.
The Handmaid is assigned to be impregnated by Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) as his wife Serena Joy watches on. She is both repulsed and envious of Offred.
The first episode had a good setting of a theocratic based feudal society, you are always being watched, you could always be reported by someone close to you.
Rebellion is not tolerated. Public hangings are common.
Moss gives a good performance of someone caught in a trap, she wants to rebel but she is also regarded as being pious. She had a life before all this, a husband and daughter, as well as her own name and identity.