Review: On The Handmaid's Tale, TV's Great New Heroine Is Born
Apr 15, 2017, 01:15 PM
It would be easy to frame Hulu's new drama series The Handmaid's Tale as a beneficiary of extraordinarily good timing. Its source material, Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, is one of two modern classics to receive a sudden and sustained boost in discussion in the months since President Trump's election. (The other, George Orwell's 1984, is being adapted for Broadway, where it will debut this summer.