Why Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale failed as feminist television

By Roberta Garrett, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, University of East London

Warning: this article contains spoilers for all seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s landmark 1985 feminist novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has now come to an end.

The series focused on female oppression within the imagined future religio-fascist state of Gilead. So, in light of the Donald Trump-led Republican party’s infringements on the reproductive rights of women, it seems appropriate that the first series launched in 2017, a year after…

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