The Handmaids Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale creator Bruce Miller on upcoming season, series' future: 'I feel like I could go on forever'
•Miller said he’s fascinated by what unfolds in Atwood’s 2019 companion novel, The Testaments, set 15 years later. Whether it’s going to be “part of our future, that’s a bigger question,” he said. Hulu acquired rights to the book with a sequel series in mind.
Emmy Awards 2020: From Reese Witherspoon to The Mandalorian, the snubs and the surprises
•Heading into an Emmys season eclipsed by both Black Lives Matters protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, the question was whether we would see new trends.
Reading dystopian fiction during the coronavirus pandemic: Genre's prescience helps imagine a better future
Shivani_bhasin •Dystopian fiction issues warnings and predicts outcomes. It forces us to acknowledge that the evils of the world it depicts are systemic, that something new, something better rests upon the complete annihilation of the old world
Dystopian fiction offers lessons in fighting injustice, but genre's proliferation can encourage violent rhetoric, action
Aeon •Responses to dystopian fiction suggest that people might be more inclined to draw ‘political life lessons’ from a narrative about an imaginary political world than from fact-based reporting about the real world.
Disney+ is value addition to Hotstar’s HBO, Showtime, FX offerings: How the rebranding shakes up the Indian streaming market
Prahlad Srihari •The arrival of Disney+ does not mean you should not renew your Netflix and Amazon Prime Video subscriptions, but never relinquish your Hotstar subscription.
Elisabeth Moss to make directorial debut with fourth season of dystopian drama, The Handmaid's Tale
Fp Staff •Elisabeth Moss was recently seen in the horror thriller, The Invisible Man.
The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite receive best ensemble nominations at SAG Awards 2020
•The SAG Awards will be presented 19 January and broadcast live on TNT and TBS in the US.
From Joker to Guy Fawkes: The transformative power of masks and why protesters wear disguises to challenge those in power
•When worn by protesters, masks can encourage people to do something extraordinary, to take to the streets in order to challenge those in power, to render themselves visible and vulnerable alongside others doing the same.
The Testaments review: Margaret Atwood's sequel to Handmaid's Tale is a 101 on how patriarchy works
Rohininair •The Gilead that we encounter in The Testaments is no less menacing than the one from The Handmaid's Tale, but its seams are fraying.
San Diego Comic Con 2019: Fans cosplay as characters from Handmaid's Tale, to Pennywise the Clown
Fp Staff •The San Diego Comic Con is the high point of thousands of pop culture aficionados, from fans of comic book to fantasy to dystopian fiction and horror. The 2019 edition was held from 18 July to 22 July.