I remember reading THE HANDMAID'S TALE back in my school days and not liking it much; Atwood's book felt to me to be one of the most boring and depressing things out there. Decades later and, having heard good things about this new TV show adaptation, I found myself willing to check it out. Episode 1, OFFRED, gets off to a good start, introducing a whole new dystopian future and generally working by mixing plot, character beats and some violent shocks into a grim but gripping whole.
Review of Offred
