The Handmaid’s Tale Could Be So Much Better. But First It Has to Leave Its Star Behind

There is a common misperception that Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale ended its powerful, if saggy, first season on the very last page of Margaret Atwood’s novel: The secret police loads Offred (played in the TV series by Elisabeth Moss) into the back of a van. She doesn’t know whether she’s headed for doom or freedom, by way of the Mayday resistance, and neither do we.

There is a common misperception that Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale ended its powerful, if saggy, first season on the very last page of Margaret Atwood’s novel: The secret police loads Offred (played in the TV series by Elisabeth Moss) into the back of a van. She doesn’t know whether she’s headed for doom or freedom, by way of the Mayday resistance, and neither do we.