We’ve been watching The Handmaid’s Tale for a week or so. I think My Darling B wanted to binge-watch the whole think in a weekend, but it’s a hard show to watch, or at least it is for me. I can watch one episode a night at most.
The story is set in a dystopia that seemed so far-fetched when I read the book in college. Men are in control of everything; women aren’t allowed to do anything but be wives, aren’t barred by law from owning anything at all; they can’t even have money. When I read that so many years ago I thought: What if? As I watch it now I think: When? How much longer have we got before we’re living in that world? Is it even months away? Or here’s a crazy thought: What if we’re already living there? What if our society is at the tipping point the story started at, it’s just that the other shoe hasn’t fallen yet? Now that I look at it from my present-day perspective, when men are being called out every day for the abusive behavior they’ve been allowed to get away with for years, it doesn’t seem to be such a far-fetched story at all.
We have only a few more episodes until the end of the first season. B seems to think it will end well for June, the main character. I’m pessimistic about June’s chances, particularly after I heard there will be a second season.
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