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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Hulu is worst of the litter. Netflix and Amazon and Britbox are all better
Of course they would never think of the connection between women’s oppression and Islam. No, it has to be Christians and Repubs.
Aside from the eponymous Games in the series of books and movies, the world of the Hunger Games resembles what America would look like without the Electoral College, impoverished districts with little or no say in how they are governed by a wealthy Capital.
The show is based(loosely) on a novel written in the 80’s by a Canadian.
Serena Joy = Lindale Sarsour
Oops. Serena Joy = Linda Sarsour
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
Made into a movie back in 1990.
Skinny soccer moms in 200 dollar yoga pants in 125,000 dollar G Wagons flitting between yoga and the dermatologist and whole paycheck
Don’t tell me we don’t need more handmaidens today
Lowry has found his level
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