I’ve been able to make it through one single episode of the Handmaid’s Tale, and will just say that it’s a pretty marginalized Sci-Fi-related story that just doesn’t deliver. The one I watched had something to do with Canada, and that that was the only place where things seemed to run normally in this ‘modern’ world.
If you took Dallas, Planet of the Apes, Jane Austen novels, and blended them into a three-quarter speed sci-fi soap opera....this is the result. Frankly, I think the audience is about 90-percent women (under the age of forty).
I tried to watch it as well. If a show is entertaining, I can look past the politics and enjoy it. Key word though is "entertaining."
Handmaid's Tale just felt too dated to the 1980s, like it was trying too hard to imagine the fundamentalist Christian dystopia that liberals believed would happen during the Reagan Years, that never came to pass, and now feels preposterous.
I suspect most viewers of the Handmaid’s Tale watch it with their cats...