Having picked up a whopping 8 Emmy Awards
just last month, the critically acclaimed drama The Handmaid’s Tale is now running on M-Net channel 101. With its
powerhouse female cast, haunting visuals and contemporary themes, the series
was renewed for a second season just days after season one’s first three
episodes premiered.
Based on the celebrated novel of the same
name from author Margaret Atwood, and starring the talented Elisabeth Moss, the
psychological drama is centred in a dystopian Republic called Gilead, a
totalitarian society that was formerly part of the United States. Twisted by
religious fundamentalism, environmental disasters and plunging birth rates, the
government treats women as property of the state meaning that the few remaining
fertile women in the Republic are assigned to households as ‘Handmaids’ and are
forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a
devastated world.
The gripping story is explored through the
eyes of one such Handmaid, Offred, who is assigned to the household of a
Commander and his forbidding wife. In this terrifying society where one wrong
word could end her life, where anyone could be a spy for Gilead, Offred
navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her
fellow Handmaids, all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was
taken from her when the Republic first came to be.
Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood had a cameo
in the first episode of the drama, and serves as a producer on the show
alongside Elisabeth Moss. The series stars Elisabeth Moss (The West Wing, Mad Men, Top of the Lake), Joseph Fiennes (American Horror Story, Camelot), Yvonne
Strahovski (Chuck, Dexter, 24: Live
Another Day) Alexis Bledel (Gilmore
Girls, Mad Men) Madeline Brewer (Orange
is The New Black, Grimm) Ann Dowd (The
Leftovers, Quarry) O T Fagbenle (Looking,
The Five), Max Minghella (The Mindy
Project) and Samira Wiley (Orange is
The New Black, You're the Worst).
The series was created by Bruce Miller and
is executive produced by Ilene Chaiken, Warren Littlefield, Bruce Miller, Reed
Morano, Fran Sears and Daniel Wilson.
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