Neil Gaiman is having another moment.
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Praise be! Margaret Atwood is finally writing a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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Grab your bonnets, y’all.
The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood announced on Twitter Wednesday that rumors of a sequel to her bestselling novel turned Emmy-winning TV show are true.
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The sequel, called The Testaments, will feature multiple narrators and take place after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Yes indeed to those who asked: I’m writing a sequel to The #HandmaidsTale#TheTestaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in Sept 2019. More details: https://t.co/e1umh5FwpX pic.twitter.com/pePp0zpuif
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) November 28, 2018 Read more…
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Picture this: you’ve just finished reading (or watching) The Handmaid’s Tale. You’re so inspired by the dystopian plot, the enthralling characters, and crafty writing style that you decide to take a creative writing class. On the first day you sit down, your professor walks in, and *plot twist* — your professor is none other than Margaret Atwood, the author of the story you love so much.
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The beauty of sites like MasterClass is that you get to do exactly as the name implies — learn from the masters. Plus, since MasterClass is online and on-demand, you get to do it at your own pace, on your own time, from wherever. Praise be, ya’ll. Read more…
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Who is June speaking to in the voiceover for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?
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This article contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2, Episode 11, and speculation about the plot for future seasons.
More than any other episode before it, “Holly” made clear that June’s voiceovers in The Handmaid’s Tale are more than just a powerful storytelling device.
June is telling her story to someone, somewhere, at some time in the future. And that raises a whole mess of questions we might not even have thought to ask before.
Who is the “you” June is telling her story to? How is she even telling her story at all, when she lives in a society that forbids her from either speaking or writing? What does it mean for her survival — and Gilead’s? And what does this tell us about the show’s endgame? Read more…
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View More Who is June speaking to in the voiceover for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?After Kennedy’s retirement, are we entering ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ territory?
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, effective July 31. Given that Donald Trump gets to pick his replacement, and Mitch McConnell controls the Senate confirmation process, it seems all but certain that…
View More After Kennedy’s retirement, are we entering ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ territory?Everyone is comparing Trump’s border policy to ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ even the creator
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Spoilers ahead: If you haven’t watched Handmaid’s Tale, you’ve been warned.
The Trump administration’s forcible separation of children from their families at the U.S. border has everyone comparing it to The Handmaid’s Tale — including Margaret Atwood herself.
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The author of the dystopian classic has pulled many of the narrative’s horrific happenings from history, and on Tuesday, Atwood acknowledged how believable Trump’s cruel border policy would be within the Republic of Gilead.
That is why I did not put anything into #TheHandmaidsTale that had not happened somewhere… including the snatching of children from their parents. Believable? Alas yeshttps://t.co/VGw8LkiCIV
— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 19, 2018 Read more…
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The good news is that Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 eventually does start to recapture some of the poignancy that made Season 1 an unprecedented phenomenon.
The bad news is that it takes about half of the season to start getting there.
To be fair, the near-flawless Emmy and Golden Globe-award winning Season 1 casts a very long shadow. The problem with creating a series that fundamentally changes what we think is possible for a popular TV show (streaming or otherwise) is that you then have to follow it up with a Season 2. And now, audience expectation is at an impossibly high bar.
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Margaret Atwood, author of dystopian classics The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, is widely considered one of the world’s greatest living novelists. She is not, however, considered the world’s greatest movie critic.
That much became clear T…