The Handmaid’s Tale Season 1

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A show based on a novel written in the past, ostensibly set in the near future, but really about today — “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a haunting confluence of tenses. It’s also one of the best shows of the year so far, at times hard to watch but impossible to ignore.

The series revolves around a woman known as Offred (Elisabeth Moss), who is one of the few fertile women left in the nation of Gilead, a fundamentalist dystopia where the birth rate is dismal and women have been stripped of all rights. Offred serves as a “vessel” for a high-ranking Commander (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife (Yvonne Strahovski), but still remembers her old life as an American citizen and a free woman, prior to the rise of the new regime. While she can’t let go of her memories, especially those of the husband (O. T. Fagbenle) and daughter (Jordana Blake) she’s lost, she also refuses to let this cruel world crush her.

-Liz Shannon Miller

We have a winner. Although it’s only four months into 2017, the most riveting series of the year arrives Wednesday and it deserves all the awards, for acting, directing, writing, cinematography. Is there a prize for political and social relevance that will chill you to the bone? It gets that one, too. Dystopia feels all too familiar in Hulu’s new series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the online platform’s adaptation of the 1985 novel.

At the Women’s March in January, signs like “Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again” and “The Handmaid’s Tale Is Not An Instruction Manual” were sprinkled through the crowds, an indication of how much the Canadian author’s vision of an autocratic nation that eliminates women’s rights and forces them to be reproductive servants is resonating right this minute.

-Julie Hinds

Few modern novels have been as acclaimed, or as often adapted, as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

The 1985 work of speculative fiction became a movie in 1990, an opera in 2000, a stage play in 2002 and a ballet in 2013. Next is a 10-episode television series, arriving Wednesday on Hulu.

With its themes of feminism, fascism and fundamentalism, “The Handmaid’s Tale” feels as significant today as ever — and as chilling.

-By Gail Pennington St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Actors: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewe
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: Mgm (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2018
Run Time: 525 minutes
ASIN: B075RT1NYK