What is “The Handmaid's Tale”
A: The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian television series.
Who was it created by?
A: Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author
Margaret Atwood.
The series was ordered by what streaming service?
A: Hulu as a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes, for which production
began in late 2016.
What does the plot feature?
A: A dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a theonomic,
totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to
child-bearing slavery.
When did the first three episodes of the series
premiere?
A: On April 26, 2017; the subsequent seven episodes were released every
Wednesday.
In July 2019, the series was renewed for what?
A: A fourth season, which premiered on April 27, 2021.
What was announced on September 2019?
A: Hulu and MGM were developing a sequel series, to be based on Atwood's
2019 novel The Testaments.
In December 2020, ahead of the fourth season premiere,
the series was renewed for what?
A: A fifth season, which premiered on September 14, 2022.
In September 2022, ahead of the fifth season premiere,
the series was renewed for what?
A: A sixth and final season.
The Handmaid's Tale's first season won how many
Primetime Emmy Awards from 13 nominations, including Outstanding Drama
Series?
A: Eight.
It is the first show produced by Hulu to win what?
A: A major award as well as the first series on a streaming service to win
an Emmy for Outstanding Series.
It won the Golden Globe Award for what?
A: Best Television Series – Drama.
Elisabeth Moss was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for
what?
A: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
She also won the Golden Globe for what?
A: Best Actress in a Television Drama Series.
It is a world where fertility rates have collapsed as a
result of what?
A: Sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution.
The totalitarian, theonomic government of Gilead
establishes what?
A: Rule in the former United States in the aftermath of a civil war.
How is society organized?
A: By power-hungry leaders along with a new, militarized, hierarchical
regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which
women are brutally subjugated.
By law, women in Gilead are forced to what?
A: Work in very limited roles, including some as natal slaves, and they are
not allowed to own property, have careers, handle money, or read.
Worldwide infertility has led to the enslavement of
fertile women in Gilead determined by the new regime to be what?
A: Fallen women, citing an extremist interpretation of the Biblical account
of Bilhah.
These women often include those who have entered
marriages following what?
A: Divorce, single or unmarried mothers, lesbians, non-Christians, adherents
of Christian denominations other than the "Sons of Jacob", political
dissidents, and academics.
These women, called Handmaids, are assigned to what?
A: The homes of the ruling elite, where they must submit to ritualized rape
by their male masters in the presence of their wives, to be impregnated and
bear children for them.
Handmaids are given names created by what?
A The addition of the prefix Of- to the first name of the man who has them.
When they are transferred, their names are what?
A: Changed.