‘The Testaments’ and the Tyranny of Tenderness
In The Handmaid’s Tale, violence had to break in; in The Testaments, a tyrannical tenderness occupies a child’s dollhouse, a child’s mind.
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Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The first season of this icily horrific series is a crash course in the possibilities of a uniquely American 'It Could Happen Here' patriarchal Christian fascism.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is a Haunting Glimpse Into the Unfathomable
Timeliness of its themes and message aside, Bruce Miller’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is worth watching for the show’s quality on its own merits.