Tag Archives: The Handmaid's Tale

Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Book #176 of 2019: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale #2) With this novel, author Margaret Atwood returns to the setting of her 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale a decade and a half later on (and ignoring how its recent TV adaptation has imagined what happens after the end of that first book). …

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TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 1

TV #43 of 2017: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 1 Very powerful and difficult-to-watch television. To be honest, I wasn’t really blown away when I read the book this show was based on – it’s definitely a solid dystopian nightmare, but I didn’t find it especially gripping or haunting. This adaptation was all of that and …

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