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While I’d never presume to speak for her, I suspect that Margaret Atwood would be perfectly happy to be a little less hot right now, if only it meant that her works of fiction, always prescient, weren’t so alarmingly present. Written in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale feels closer than ever, and its 2019 sequel, The Testaments, now has a much-anticipated adaptation of its own. While Handmaid saw a generation of women coming to grips with an oppressive Christian nationalist regime consolidating its power, The Testaments finds a later generation of young women who’ve never known any different; for whom this is all perfectly normal. Which feels rather real. Stream The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments on Hulu, and then check out these other fascist dystopias.
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