The Differences Between The Handmaid’s Tale Show and Book, Explained

The new Hulu television series The Handmaid's Tale remains in many ways faithful to Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. Both the show and the book tell the story of a society with a declining birthrate that forces fertile women, dubbed "handmaids," to bear children for wealthy men and their barren wives. But Atwood wrote the book on a typewriter in 1984; much has changed since then, both technologically and socially.

And so the show has updated itself to reflect the current times.