Plot for the novel is here.
Anti-Trump leftist paranoia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
Note that crazy leftists WANT Muslims to come here who actually would create a hell on earth for women.
I had to read this wretched book years ago.
My recollection is that the world was left with very few women (somehow). Due to this shortage, the future of the human race was in jeopardy. With women so scarce, they were of vital importance —
And so: Women were treated as property, like slaves. They were given no respect or consideration. Men ruled and did as they liked.
And I was thinking: This makes no sense.
This came out as a full length movie several years ago. The author, Canadian Margaret Atwood, sure hates the USA.
The premise is that the Christian right has taken over the USA and is misusing bible quotes to enslave women, sex slaves to be exact. Women can’t work, read, drive. Some get numbered tattoos on their forearms and are required to get pregnant.
Some interesting concepts, like Particicutions.
The TV series is bound to be worse, I suspect it will be full of anti-Trump propaganda.
I recall the 1990 film starring Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway wasn’t very good. But I’m no film critic....
All these Leftist dystopian novels, movies and TV shows are in a world where Christians have somehow managed to impose a Christian theocracy on the country or large parts of the world. And the brave heroes risk getting killed for going against the strict Christian teachings. The Handmaid’s Tale is one. But V for Vendetta is another. They’re laughable since the chances of Christians being anywhere close to imposing a theocracy on the West are slim to none.
The irony is that there are a number of countries out there that actually have imposed a strict theocracy on their citizens where you get jailed or killed for violating religious law. But Hollywood doesn’t want to talk about them . . . .
I really don’t know what all the hubbub about this Handmaid’s Tale thing is. I saw the 1990 movie and was definitely not impressed.
If you can get past the apocalyptic reasons for infertility and the somewhat puritanical treatment of the ensuing society, it is nothing more than how a ‘maid’ convinces a master that the baby she carries is the master’s (IIRC).
A rather bland and un-engaging story as I recall.
How many homosexuals were involved in the writing and production of this, I wonder?
Heavy handed political overt plots like this do more harm than good for the propagandists behind them. I’d not worry.
There is a reason the movie was so bad. Just like Atlas Shrugged. The characters and plot are simply not believable, even when you agree with the message of the story.
Not even snowflakes will watch this drivel. But, as with all free speech, it is within their drivel rights to produce it. Knock yourself out, bitches.
I think it stars that mouse-eared woman from the TV show `Mad Men’ who didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw a doctor and went into labor. She was giddy on IMBD over playing something “relevant”.
I saw the paranoid movie. This one shows all the signs of something tired already done that wasn’t that good to begin getting re-capped. So more strips of rubber lying on the side of the TV highway.
Most leftards when bashing the Christian Patriarchal culture conveniently forget Ephesians 5.
This whole TV series looks like it was written by perverts.
The Handmaids Tale is must reading in most universities since it is basically a feminist screed against males.
Plot summary
In the near future, war rages across the fictional Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99% of the population sterile. Kate is a woman attempting to emigrate to Canada with her husband and daughter. While attempting to take a dirt road, they are caught by the Gilead Border Guard, who order them to turn back or they will open fire. Kate's husband uses an automatic rifle to draw the fire, telling Kate to run, but he gets shot, Kate gets captured, whilst their daughter wanders off into the backcountry confused and unaccompanied. The authorities take Kate to a training facility with several other women, where they are all trained to become a Handmaid, a concubine for one of the privileged but barren couples who rule the country's religious fundamentalist regime. Although she resists being indoctrinated into the cult of the Handmaids, mixing Old Testament orthodoxy with 12-step gospel [?] and ritualized violence, Kate is soon assigned to the home of the Commander and his cold, inflexible wife, Serena Joy. There she is renamed "Offred" - "of Fred".
Her role as concubine is emotion-free, as she lies between Serena Joy's legs while being penetrated by the Commander, in hopes that she will bear them a child. Kate continually longs for her earlier life, and is haunted by nightmares of her husband's death and daughter's disappearance. She soon learns that many of the nation's male leaders are as sterile as their wives. Serena Joy desperately wants a baby, so she convinces Kate to risk the punishment for fornication — death by hanging — in order to be fertilized by another man who will make her pregnant, and subsequently, spare her life. In exchange for agreeing to this, Serena Joy provides information to Kate that her daughter is alive, and shows a recent photograph of her as proof, living with another Commander. However, Kate is told she can never see her daughter. The Commander also tries to get closer to Kate, in the sense he feels if she enjoyed herself more she would be a better handmaid. The Commander gets Kate hard-to-obtain items, and, having realized her background as a librarian, allows her access to his private library. However, during a night out, the Commander has sex with Kate in a manner that is probably not intended for pregnancy. The other man selected by Serena Joy turns out to be Nick, the Commander's sympathetic chauffeur. Kate grows attached to him and eventually becomes pregnant with his child.
Kate ultimately kills the Commander, then is taken away by a police unit. She thinks that the men are the Eyes, the government's secret police. However, it turns out that they are soldiers from the resistance movement, which Nick, too, is a part of. Kate then flees with them, leaving Nick behind in an emotional scene.
In the closing scene, Kate is once again free and wearing her own clothes, but facing an uncertain future. She is living by herself, pregnant in a trailer whilst receiving intelligence reports from the rebels. She wonders if she will be reunited with Nick, but expresses hope that will happen, and resolves with the rebels' help she will find her daughter.
Eech!
The core premise of the story is that a worldwide disease makes most women infertile. The few who can conceive are pressed into service as concubine/surrogate-mother’s.
The story having been written pre-IVF technology, conception is the old fashioned way leading to subplots about older rich men rather enjoying the process involving young women bit complicated by their wives observing the process to ensure he doesn’t enjoy it too much. To facilitate this, religion is abused to address the moral conflicts.
This is called doubling down. I predict it following the same majestic path as the “Golden Compass” which Hollywood could not figure out why it didn’t do so well either.
Leftists and many Democrats are uneducated enough to actually believe that Christians and Muslims are equally violent and regressive. I love to treat these people with sarcasm, it’s quite fun. Any reasonably educated person can knock their arguments down, they tend to use only one, Timothy McVeigh and there really aren’t any.
I mean, there just aren’t any nuns blowing up buses or throwing gays off roofs.
But in all seriousness the people making this are trying to convince people that Christians wish to enslave women just like Muslims do. They are that insane and the depth of Trump Derangement Syndrome out there should indicate there are those who have taken leave of their senses enough to believe anything, that will sit and blankly nod, “Uh huh, uh huh” on watching this. Expect gushing reviews from lib critics on this turd.