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Handmaid's Tale season 1 (2017)
2017.08.06
Just finished watching season one. Read the book in the 80s, watched the movie in the 90s. I vaguely remember the book being OK, with a somewhat dissapointing ending, and the movie being unwatchable.
This tv series was better. They stretched it a bit, but it mostly held up. I remember things as the show went along. Other than the premise, not much of the original story was all that memorable. And even the premise is paper thin; if you are any kind of student of history and how power works, you know that you this kind of story in this short a timeline doesn't quite work that way. But there's the sci-fi premise of radical population decline, so that throws everything off.
This show feels like a prequel to Children of Men. At this point, there's still a little hope, there are still some viable mothers, still a few children. It feels like within a generation or two, we'll be in that other movie. It feels a bit pointless like why bother fighting this ridiculous theocracy, when the human populations is going to dwindle to nothing soon anyway.
Just finished watching season one. Read the book in the 80s, watched the movie in the 90s. I vaguely remember the book being OK, with a somewhat dissapointing ending, and the movie being unwatchable.
This tv series was better. They stretched it a bit, but it mostly held up. I remember things as the show went along. Other than the premise, not much of the original story was all that memorable. And even the premise is paper thin; if you are any kind of student of history and how power works, you know that you this kind of story in this short a timeline doesn't quite work that way. But there's the sci-fi premise of radical population decline, so that throws everything off.
This show feels like a prequel to Children of Men. At this point, there's still a little hope, there are still some viable mothers, still a few children. It feels like within a generation or two, we'll be in that other movie. It feels a bit pointless like why bother fighting this ridiculous theocracy, when the human populations is going to dwindle to nothing soon anyway.
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