If you haven’t seen ‘’The Handmaid’s Tale’’ you are in for a ride!
The series called The Handmaid’s Tale is making a big blast all around the world and you should really consider in watching it because it is really great.
These are some facts you should find out!
- The Handmaid’s Tale is an American dystopian drama web television and it aired on Hulu on April 26, 2017.
- It is created by Bruce Miller.
- It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.
- Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes,Yvonne Strahovski ,Alexis Bledel ,Madeline Brewer ,Ann Dowd ,O. T. Fagbenle ,Max Minghella , Samira Wiley ,Amanda Brugel are some of the cast members.
- Each episode lasts about 47–63 minutes.
- Elisabeth Moss plays June Osborne / Offred, a woman who was captured while attempting to escape to Canada with her husband, Luke, and daughter, Hannah. Due to her fertility, she is made a Handmaid to Commander Fred Waterford and his wife, Serena Joy, and is named “Offred.
- The main plot is about the near future, fertility rates collapse as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution. With this chaos, the totalitarian, theonomic government of “Gilead” establishes rule in the former United States in the aftermath of a civil war. Society is organized by power-hungry leaders along with a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are not allowed to work, own property, handle money, or read.
- You will feel really weird when you see the first episode because you will not expect the scenes you are going to see.
- The first season won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from thirteen nominations.
- It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Drama.