Today Hulu released their Super Bowl TV spot for their upcoming new series The Handmaid’s Tale. The Handmaid’s Tale will have 10 episodes during its first season. The series is based on the best-selling and somewhat prophetic novel by Margaret Atwood. The official synopsis for the series is below: The drama series is the story...
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On this week’s Legion of Leia Podcast episode 57, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome The Bye Bye Man director Stacy Title. In the film, a group of students discover something that threatens their minds. The tagline, “Don’t think it, don’t say it,” refers to the fact that The Bye Bye...
Hulu announced the release date for the 10-episode first season. The Handmaid’s Tale will premiere on Hulu on April 26, 2017. So we have a bit of time until the new series comes out to re-read the book or, for newcomers to the realm of Margaret Atwood, maybe get the chance to read the book for the first time before the series...
If you’ve read Margaret Atwood’s 1984 book The Handmaid’s Tale, you’re probably already having horrible visions of our future, considering the political climate. As a teenager, reading this book about a possible future where religion rules and women are forced into reproductive slavery and domesticity, I never thought it...
Casting for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is well underway. We’ve already seen who’s been cast as Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and found out last week who’s been cast as the Commander (Joseph Fiennes). This week Hulu has found the companion to their Commander and has cast Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy. Serena Joy, for...
Ever since Hulu announced that they were going to adapt Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, I’ve been on edge waiting to see who was going to be cast as what. The 1990 movie adaptation of the novel did not do the original work justice. After finding out that Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) was cast as Offred and that Margaret...
Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic of futuristic dystopian fiction. Set in the Republic of Gilead, it tells the tail of Offred, a woman who lives through the rise of religious fascism in the former United States, and is subject to a social order designed to stringently oppress women. A...