has anyone been watching this? It's a dystopian 1984 style show about a society called Gilead (old east coast USA) that is a totalitarian autocracy where women are property. The book is pretty s*** but the TV show is very entertaining. It's slow moving but pretty powerful in some scenes.
The Handmaids Tale
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I'd seen the promo shots from the Cannes junket online, but had no idea what it was about.
I just watched the trailers and am downloading it now!
Something has happened in the past few years, and cinematography and costuming has become so exquisite in tv production.
We used to either get one or the other.
In regards to the story, sounds like a sweet deal. Getting spermed and getting to chill out for 9months? Sign me up!
I just watched the trailers and am downloading it now!
Something has happened in the past few years, and cinematography and costuming has become so exquisite in tv production.
We used to either get one or the other.
In regards to the story, sounds like a sweet deal. Getting spermed and getting to chill out for 9months? Sign me up!
I wasn't too impressed at the start of it but I think my opinion of the TV show may have been influenced by the book which I found to be a proper chore to get through. But they have really done a great idea of taking the rough idea of the story and running with it for the TV show. I'm coming to the end of it now and I can't wait for the next one. It's not a million miles from the story behind Children of Men.
And yeah, the cinematography and costume pieces are absolutely fantastic in it.
Not yet. I was busy watching watching Fargo trilogy, but that is finished now. I will give this a look as I catch up with American Gods.
I have to get back to American Gods. That's another one where the book wasn't all that great. Once I finish Handmaids Take I'll start American Gods from the beginning again I think.
Holy s***! Talk about heavy!
I'm halfway through the third episode, and had to stop it. You really can't binge watch this show.
But it's so pretty to look at! I'm really liking the universe that they've created. I know it's based on a book, but you could easily spin off other stories related to it.
And Alexis Bledel makes everything better! She should have done more Gilmore girls though, instead of this.
Not sure if this show will ever make it huge though. Too many women are in it for most men to like.
I'm halfway through the third episode, and had to stop it. You really can't binge watch this show.
But it's so pretty to look at! I'm really liking the universe that they've created. I know it's based on a book, but you could easily spin off other stories related to it.
And Alexis Bledel makes everything better! She should have done more Gilmore girls though, instead of this.
Not sure if this show will ever make it huge though. Too many women are in it for most men to like.
Yeah it's heavy going alright. I just finished it about few weeks back and it is SO good. I'm even more impressed because I struggled to finish the book.
Damn, might have to get Hulu. I haven't read the book, though I do love Children of Men, and the movie was really well done too
Stay away from the book unless you like Margaret Atwoods work (think I spelt her name wrong there). But yes, the TV show is like a slightly different serialised version of Children of Men. It was the same background story about babies not being born anymore. In the book there are hints of a large scale nuclear war after happening but I don't remember any reference to that that in the show.
No, actually there is WAY less in the book. The book doesn't really have the resistance stuff in it, all the stuff in Canada (the story with her husband and her friend), thats all different. The scenes where you see how the Sons of Jacob came to power, none of that is in the book.
Really? They were some of my favourite scenes. I loved how they showed the changing relationship between husband and wife. How your perception of the two of them changed so dramatically.
The wife isn't a one dimensional character. She is lonely. Harsh, caring, vindictive, threatening, nurturing, a leader, submissive... She was almost the one that built her own fate. As brilliant as she was, I don't know if that's what she actually wanted, and it's bitten her in the arse.
The same as the scenes with the ceremony. None of them want that situation to be happening. The wife doesn't want it, the husband doesn't want it, and the redtag doesn't. It's like all 3 parties involved are being raped. Both literally, and by circumstance.
Brilliant acting in those scenes. I haven't felt so uncomfortable in a series for a long time.
I'm gonna have to give it a read at some point. Ive been googling a fair bit about it in the past few days, and there are some brilliant essays written about the book.
The cinematography really reminds me of the third hunger games, and Momento for some reason.
Plainview I think you'd like this show. Lots of parrelels to your elpresidente.
Really? They were some of my favourite scenes. I loved how they showed the changing relationship between husband and wife. How your perception of the two of them changed so dramatically.
The wife isn't a one dimensional character. She is lonely. Harsh, caring, vindictive, threatening, nurturing, a leader, submissive... She was almost the one that built her own fate. As brilliant as she was, I don't know if that's what she actually wanted, and it's bitten her in the arse.
The same as the scenes with the ceremony. None of them want that situation to be happening. The wife doesn't want it, the husband doesn't want it, and the redtag doesn't. It's like all 3 parties involved are being raped. Both literally, and by circumstance.
Brilliant acting in those scenes. I haven't felt so uncomfortable in a series for a long time.
I'm gonna have to give it a read at some point. Ive been googling a fair bit about it in the past few days, and there are some brilliant essays written about the book.
The cinematography really reminds me of the third hunger games, and Momento for some reason.
Plainview I think you'd like this show. Lots of parrelels to your elpresidente.
Some of the best scenes in the show aren't in the book. And there are a few good ideas in the book, missing from the show as well. But overall, as i said, I found the book a real chore and a struggle to finish. It's nearly all an internal monologue by Offfred.
