“The Handmaid’s Tale is a terrifying piece of dystopian fiction. But what makes it so much harder to stomach is the fact that it’s not really fiction, or dystopia, at all.
“In fact, the events of the book-turned-TV drama, which aired on Sunday night on Channel 4, are currently happening around the world as we speak – and it’s not hyperbole to say the eventual possibility of a real life Gilead creeps ever closer with each day.
“The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a near future when the government has been overthrown after a staged attack that kills the President and most of Congress, and now a totalitarian theocracy has turned the former United States Of America into Gilead.”
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