Posted on 09/18/2017 11:23:23 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump, much to his chagrin, never won an Emmy for “The Apprentice,” but he can now take indirect credit for a clutch of the awards.
The Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” won eight Emmys on Sunday night, a sweep fueled, in part, by the widely accepted belief in liberal America that the show tells us something about the Trump era.
Based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, the series depicts a misogynist dystopia. Christian fundamentalists have established a theocracy that — after an environmental debacle craters the birth rate — forces fertile women, called handmaids, into sexual slavery.
Set in contemporary America, the show combines the atmosphere of “The Scarlet Letter” with “1984.” It is bleak, plodding, heavy-handed and occasionally gripping. What has given it extra oomph is the trope that it is relevant to Trump’s America. This a staple of the commentary, and everyone involved in the show’s production pushes the notion.
According to Atwood, people woke up after Trump’s election “and said we’re no longer in a fantasy fiction.” The series is indeed highly relevant — as a statement on the fevered mind of progressives.
The president doesn’t want to impose his traditional sexual morality, because, for starters, he doesn’t have any to impose. His critics are mistaking a thrice-married real-estate mogul who has done cameos in Playboy videos and extensive interviews on the Howard Stern Show with Cotton Mather. He isn’t censorious; he’s boorish.
“I thought this could be a great cautionary tale,” director Reed Morano says of the show. “We don’t think about how women are treated in other countries as much as we should, and I guess I thought this would raise awareness.”
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This show isn’t on cable, it’s streamed on demand.
Waiting for the courageous Canadians to produce “The Goat’s Tail.”
Shows how much I pay attention to it. I had to search to see who made it and it came up as HBO.
It’s just Hollyweird’s twisted dementia come to fruition. They put Trump into the boogie man’s position now they need to come up with ways to justify it.
It takes a person with a really weak mind and very warped vision of reality to believe such garbage is pertinent to our current president. But then they are grabbing at any straws to justify their hysterical hatred of the man.
Had to read that tripe in college. It reads like it was written by a 12 year old.
Nothing original. Over puncuated. Makes Dan Brown look like Joyce.
“the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ has nothing to do with Trump’s America.”
None of Atwood’s writings have anything to do with reality.
It’s on hulu, which is the grandaddy of online tv streaming.
Back in the day it used to be free.
Maybe if Mr. Morano really wanted to show us how women in other countries are treated, he could make movies based on reality and not on a weird fantasy world. Then again, he’d have to portray other cultures in a less than glowing diversity-light. Much easier to attack Christians or what he perceives as Christians.
Sheesh.
I download eveerything I watch from torrent sites. It's still free.
Just more worthless garbage to while away time as they attempt to corrupt minds.
Just more worthless garbage to while away time as they attempt to corrupt minds.
>>This show isn’t on cable, it’s streamed on demand.
“Steaming on demand” would be more appropriate for this steaming hot pile of .........
Nice use of a classic leftist agit-prop phrase ... she reveals her entire agenda by using it.
I am a woman who lives and works in Massachusetts. One day, days after the Trump Inauguration, I am riding in a car with my two female co-workers.
I sincerely asked them, please tell me one thing, just one thing a woman in the U.S. can’t do or achieve.
I waited and waited. Nothing.
We are indeed living in a fake reality...
Rich Lowry, editor of National Review and their Never Trump issue is reduced to writing bad entertainment reviews for the NY Post.
Now that’s Rich.
;>)
As for fiction predicting reality, I’m more concerned about “1984” and “The Hunger Games” than I am about Atwood’s drivel.
actually The Handmaids Tale is a perfect cautionary tale of the coming Islamo-fascism.
covered bodies, ownership of women, multiple “wives”
“... covered bodies....”
I agree. I guess each person that views it can see something different. Personally, I liked the book and via my eyes... I read it when surrogacy really started to become a thing. I also think like many shows... if X happens, how would society react? In this case, fertility is extremely low; thus, the politic/governments use an opportunity to once again control the masses. As usual, the higher ups NEVER practice what they preach (thus, the affairs/bordellos/etc). The “society” women who are infertile (yet in what is called the upper class) are mean/jealous of those who are fertile. I’m probably in the minority but I like the show and the acting.
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