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Years and Years
Why this pick
Its intimate family perspective makes political extremism feel frighteningly incremental, matching The Handmaid’s Tale’s focus on ordinary people enduring a rapidly narrowing world.
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SERIES2017 0h 51m / episode USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a dystopian near-future, the totalitarian and Christian-fundamentalist government of Gilead rules the former United States amidst an ongoing civil war and subjugates women, who are not allowed to work, control money, or even read. Widespread infertility due to environmental contamination has resulted in the conscription of young fertile women—called Handmaids, according to biblical precedent—who are assigned to the homes of the elite, where they must have ritualized sex with the men in order to become pregnant and bear children for those men and their wives.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Elisabeth Moss
June Osborne / Offred
Max Minghella
Nick Blaine
Joseph Fiennes
Commander Fred Waterford
O-T Fagbenle
Luke Bankole
Ann Dowd
Aunt Lydia
Alexis Bledel
Emily / Ofglen / Ofsteven
Yvonne Strahovski
Serena Joy Waterford
Samira Wiley
Moira