The Handmaid’s Tale made a huge splash in its first season, racking up eight Emmys, two Golden Globe wins, and three Critics Choice awards. All eyes are on the harrowing Hulu series about a near-future dystopia where women have been stripped of all their rights. But the series has doubly daunting task for its second […]
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Who Even Cares What the Cast of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Has to Say About Feminism?
Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. If you’ve been on the internet in the past week, you might have caught wind of a controversy surrounding the cast of […]
Since ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Hulu’s new subscriber sign-ups have nearly doubled, as it takes on Netflix
Hulu You might not have noticed until recently, but Hulu’s been running original programs for six years. Thanks to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which premiered in April and won eight Emmys in September (including the first outstanding drama win for a streaming service), things are finally starting to take off for its original series. Hulu noticed a significant rise in […]
An Emmy Win for The Handmaid’s Tale Paints a Dystopian Future for Traditional TV
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale won the Emmy award for Best Drama Series on Sunday night, the first time that a streaming service has snagged the show’s top award. In many ways, this is a surprising news peg (Hulu?!) for an unsurprising story (the rise of streaming television). Hulu is a distant third behind Netflix and […]
Emmy Award Winners 2017: Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Win Heralds Television’s New ‘Big Three’
The service’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ won big, making it the third streaming player to do so. Is there a new Big Three? https://media.wired.com/photos/59bfe8524e405857086d5078/master/pass/EmmysHMT-HP-GettyImages-848843674.jpg Feed: All Latest
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wins big for Hulu at the Emmy Awards
The Handmaid’s Tale continues to be an awards magnet for Hulu. The show won the coveted “Outstanding Drama Series” Emmy Award tonight — a first for any streaming offering — following five other major triumphs throughout the ceremony. And that’s on top of snapping up three Creative Arts Emmys during a smaller celebration last week. […]
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Reinvented Dystopia
Hulu’s Emmy-nominated show presents a familiar scenario that seems far more horrifying than drought or an AI takeover. https://media.wired.com/photos/59b70faf4f73d20a948baf4e/master/pass/HMT-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
The Handmaid’s Tale star Elizabeth Moss on new series of Top Of The Lake
How did series creator Jane Campion approach you about a second season? It came up in conversation over sushi: “What if there was a season two?” There never was supposed to be a season two. And we were all like – oh, that’s kind of exciting. Then over a year later I was at the […]
Margaret Atwood Ponders a Drake Cameo on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Ultra-famous, global zeitgeist-making Canadian artists Margaret Atwood and Drake have never met, as Atwood told Juno Diaz in an interview in the Boston Review. But that doesn’t mean they never will, particularly if Margaret Atwood gets her (newly declared) way. In the interview, Diaz said that Atwood and Drake are Canada’s two “global superstars” (though one may […]
The Handmaid’s Tale spoiler: TURMOIL as huge dead character makes shocking return
This evening, a Mexican ambassador visiting Gilead questioned Offred (played by Elisabeth Moss) on her life as a handmaid. Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) reflected on her marriage and the role she played in Gilead’s inception. However, in a quiet scene, Offred managed to gain a quiet word with the Mexican ambassador where she pleaded for […]