Top 10 Differences Between The Handmaid's Tale Book & TV Show
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The differences between The Handmaid’s Tale book and TV show stick out like a red robe. We’re looking at all the changes that were made when Margaret Atwood’s famed novel was adapted into a Hulu drama series. Is this speculative fiction story more upsetting on the page or the screen? MsMojo ranks the biggest difference between The Handmaid’s Tale book and TV show. Which version do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!
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Emily’s story is one of the best things about the show. I’m happy they fleshed her out.
Agreed but I feel like it is more of a tease. They need to invest in that storyline more and I thought no they will.
Completely agreed. Emily had an horrific start with the genital mutilation of her clit... To then be sent to the poison filled colonies which were like concentration camps and was only sent back to status as a handmaid due to the attak carried out by a group of vigilante handmaids and God bless em. Emily's back story and end story is great because she ends up with what she thought she wanted however she's so mentally and physically changed from the mistreatment of women in Gilead that her reunion with her Wife and son Oliver didn't feel like she'd imagined.
Lmao, imagine had Netflix made this show 😂 the side characters “fleshing out” would just be, “yeah, she’s gay.” I’m glad they gave Emily’s character more heart
Yes I agree . I love her character and story.
@@julz3tt3 they certainly left it open ended though, as if she & Sylvia have a chance & they certainly show that Emily & Oliver still have a connection. I hope they continue to show progression in that relationship. Emily is one of the best characters on the show, IMHO 🙂
One thing I really love about the show that wasn't really explored in the book is the world politics and showing what is happening in the rest of the world while June is trapped in Gilead.
Yeah, that scene at the end of season 1 with Luke and Moria is my favourite scene
Sure they did. A Japanese tourist asks Offred if she's happy in the book
@@lenawagenfuehr53
That only says Japanese tourists are allowed in to spend money in Gilead. It doesn't say much about what's going on in Japan.
There are tourists from eastern Asia in the book.
It is much more explored in the sequel 'The Testaments', also a greatbook.
I love the series but it scares me because it's so realistic. It's definitely something humans would be capable of...
Everything that happens in the book and movie have already happened in real life. Margaret Atwood purposely did that.
Erin P.
Yes, and it’s also worth noting that Atwood herself said that she does not believe the Trump/Pence administration would have ever brought this about.
I’m not a Trump fan, and neither is Atwood. I bring it up only because I see so many commenting that we are lucky to have avoided another Trump presidency or we would end up like Gilead. But Atwood actually alluded to an administration that looks more like the one we have at this moment. I hope HT fans are becoming more aware of this possibility, instead of relaxing in a false sense of security. A form of Gilead can very possibly form now, if we don’t stand up for freedom. There’s more to freedom than just reproductive rights.
@@teambrad3777 "I'm not a Trump fan" = You're a Trumper. We ain't stupid we see you. If the Capitol-coup hadn't been led by Karens and Jim-Bobs it could've ended up exactly like this. Everyone here and abroad associates Gilead with Trumpism.
Not humans. Men. This is what men in power could do. Not even a feminist, but why would women subjugate women in this way. BTW read the book, never seen the show.
@@teambrad3777 “there’s more to freedom” says d supporter of a party that wants to limit rights for trans people and every other person in the lgbtq+ community 🙄
I loved the book, but the show being able to go past June's perspective is invaluable.
Em Apple I agree. Although I think in reality June would not get away with as much as she does in the TV series.
Iain Finlayson Once she was pregnant she may have.
@@punkwrestle I agree. Janine seems to have gotten away with a lot.
@@thepoormansguidetothegalax3981 Not really though. She had her eye taken out and was sent to fe colonies and has been punished in other ways too 😅
I really like it in books when it's in the first person because the reader can really try to understand the character as being in their shoes (ofc we're not in June's circumstances lol but we can think about what we'd do if we were and stuff). And a lot of movies and shows do a great job of keeping the main character in first person perspective but expanding on the world around them as well. My fav series ever 💛
You could have also mentioned that in the book there are two Marthas in Offred’s house, Rita and Cora, but in the show it is only Rita, who the actress herself actually has said she likes to take on aspects of both Rita and Cora and put them into one for her character, and she does this effortlessly.
In the show Cora became martha at commander lawrence house?
@@somethingintherain796 she’s a different person entirely compared to the original Cora
I think Rita was always harder on June until she notices June hasn't got her period and is probably pregnant
Janine is such a great character in the series. It is problematic that they took her eye for being mouthy and June reaches that level of mouthy in every episode and almost every scene and hasn't even had her fingernails pulled.
You know what that’s so true but also I think since it happened in the very first episode they were making an example of how extreme things can be and that if you are still fertile we can mutilate you all we want cause we just need your uterus
100%
I think that’s the biggest problem I have with the show. June still has all her fingers and her eyes yet Janine and even Serena were both punished
I read the book when it first came out. I think it spoke more immediately to me and my generation. We were just a step away from the lessened rights described in the book. Remember that up until the late 70's a woman could not take out a loan by herself. She had to have a male cosigner, either her husband or father. We've come a ways ladies, just not far enough or securely enough. Don't take your rights for granted.
I wish more women of my generation (the one right after yours) realized this! It's too easy now for us to be stripped of our rights and women don't sense the need to fight because they haven't truly experienced experienced what it was like for women prior to 1979!
The book was very different, and I think the show does a great job of bringing the world of Gilead to life. The show is also more graphic and empowering.
For #7 the salvaging I've always had a feeling that aunt Lidia was lying about what he did and that she was making it up because a handmade was actually in love with the guy.
"Always had a feeling?" It's very clearly explained within the story. If you're talking about the show, it's explained in the very same scene.
Yeah I thought so to because how else is she going to control them
@@breadfan_85 can u explain the scene i think i missed the hint
@@LeeLee-er2rq after the girls finish killing the guy, Offred takes Ofglen aside and is like "WTF?" And Ofglen is like "Ain't Lydia is lying, he was part of the resistance."
I thought it was to vent off and take their anger out
I generally like the changes made for the series, especially being able to see the world outside June's perspective. One of my favourite things about the book though is that it doesn't try and pretend Offred hasn't been indoctrinated too - we really get a sense of her being just another woman caught up in a large-scale brainwashing regime and she is fairly passive about it.
Badass June of the series is great, but at times in season one it felt like a "chosen one" kind of thing where she just so happened to be the only one still normal. Thankfully they got away from that later on by introducing the Martha resistance and defiance with other Handmaids. Just would have liked to have gotten more of a sense of indoctrination with June in particular in the show.
They definitely jump back and forth on the "chosen one" line, but I agree that they've been pretty good about introducing enough supporting characters that it is not solely June/Offred looking to escape
I haven't read the book, but have seen the 1990 movie and I noticed this, or something similar. She is very passive in the film compared to the show. I think the show's choices were neccessary though, especially since it is intended as a long term narrative. Only a miniseries or single season could carry a more accurate adaptation of the book with it's much less aggressive lead, and yes this works out for better and for worse because, as you identified, the "chosen one" trope (with a lot of obvious plot armour moments) can't help but be regularly present in a story like this done over multiple seasons. I believe the delivery of the production (including the acting) manages to somewhat offset those "sense of disbelief" aspects pretty decently though.
The woman who plays Aunt Lydia is good, I spent the first two season like "God please tell me she is going to die screaming."
I was a little disappointed when the knife in the back didn't end up killing her.
@@embrikchloraker8186 If you read the second book in the series, the testaments, you will know that Aunt Lydia did indeed die, but not in the way we all think would happen.
In the book the Republic of Gilead was a racist society. White Commanders impregnating black or Asian Handmaids wouldn't have happened. Neither would white Commanders and their wives proudly showing off their babies of color.
The Hulu show creators made it much more PC (and thus made Gilead totally non-racist) by having quite a few main characters who are people of color: Luke, Hannah, Moira, Luke's ex-wife & Ofmatthew.
The TV Gilead is racist, too, they just pretend that the children of born via minority handmaids are lily white like their infertile "mothers", as is the situation with "Offred/June"'s eldest daughter Hannah. It is easy to ignore the race of handmaids who are kept covered from head to toe, and they probably ship the minority handmaids off even faster after birth than they do the white ones. When they have so few fertile women to work with, they take what they can get as a means of obtaining their next generation, but the powerful are never going to admit that there are minority genes in their heritage, which will always remain culturally WASPs in Gilead.
This was also the case in the slaveholding south of US history; while the bastards of white males with slave women were kept enslaved, though often more privileged than their peers, the taboo against white women with black men was so strong that if it were broken and a wealthy white family wished to protect a daughter who transgressed the taboo, the slave father would be disappeared and the girl married off hastily to a slightly lower class white man who would have a premature firstborn who was very tan. White folks who worked outside could often get as dark skinned as mixed race people, so there was plausible deniability. And while many might guess the truth, few would challenge the lies told by the mighty.
the author of the book is also apart of production as well.
It's kind of unlikely when you consider the context. They would be trying to create a "pure race". They wouldn't allow anyone but white people to breed. It's very Nazi esque. Racism and religious fundamentalism go hand in hand. If women weren't allowed to even read in Gilead they certainly wouldn't allow interracial marriage.
@@katherinejordan8018 While I agree that Gilead is envisioned as being similar to Nazis in the book, the reason for Gilead coming to power was not in effect for the Nazis, so there it is plausible that there can be some divergence in the results. Both in book & TV the entire human population has suffered a decline in fertility, which is why they are awarding handmaidens to the powerful men whose wives have failed to have children of their own. On the TV show it is clear they can not afford to let fertile women or children go to waste, but they will practice cultural genocide, pretending that the adopted children and all children born within a commander's household are of the "pure" genes of the rulers. This is a bit of the Gilead of the book that never made sense to me. If there really had been a crisis of fertility, the concept of monogamy of wives or handmaids would be the first casualty, because there is the chance that it is the powerful man who is infertile, not the women in his life. The women cope with the commander's infertility by finding a sperm donor, because to fail to conceive makes one disposable if one is a handmaiden.
Chris Snyder you’d think being so desperate for babies you wouldn’t be racist
I'm so sick of this "she had arthritis, so she is old" deduction. Once again for the people in the back-- Arthritis does not equal old. Babies are born with arthritis. I've had arthritis since I was 25. For the sake of people who already have to live with chronic pain, stop perpetuating this myth.
Absolutely true about arthritis, though I do believe that M.Atwood has admitted that she was thinking of Serena Joy as being post-menopausal. But I enjoy the younger Serena on TV, too; it shows how making one's self-worth about fertility and motherhood can terribly twist a woman. Had Serena acknowledged women's worth could be about their intelligence, charisma, and leadership skills, she could have retained an excellent self image and her own power (despite her infertility) instead of becoming a bitter, jealous woman willing to do anything to get her hands on a child that she could make call her mother, and ultimately the victim of the society she was instrumental in creating.
@@chrissnyder8108 In the show and book its inferred that the commander is the one who is infertile not Serena. Offred isn't the first handmaid they had. If I remember correctly it's never stated in the book if they ever tried to have a baby before they aged and Gilead was formed
@@itsmackenzie Agreed. Its why Serena conspires w/ Offred to sneak her some time with a sperm donor. But In the world of Gilead & surrounding countries, infertility is a problem in more families than there are fertile families, and that is used as the excuse for separating families and making the fertile women into handmaids. I'm also not certain that all the characters in the books were racially WASPs, as it is quite common for the descriptions in books to refrain from baldly stating the character's races, which allows any reader to identify with any character. Sometimes one can be halfway through a book before one is given a tidbit of description that causes you to realize a character is a minority, sometimes that moment never comes, and you then typically continue to assume that the character is like you. If the race of characters in a book isn't stated or described, it doesn't mean they are all white.
Calm down sunshine...
So true! My mom had arthritis at 12!!
The book and show have their own distinct qualities. If you'd like a more personal, deep approach to the reality of a totalitarian theocracy then the book is right for you. If you want a cinematic, emotional, and a more diverse outlook to how the theocracy has effected the people they've subjugated upon then the TV Show will be amazing.
The Janine stoning scene was AMAZING!
I Love Janine ✖️👄👁️
@@somethingintherain796 sir💀
I am sure someone has already mentioned this, but Ofglen hangs herself in the book; she sees the van of the Eyes coming for her, so she commits suicide before they can take her. The new Ofglen reveals this to Offred at the end of their first walk.
but we dont know if the new ofglen was telling the truth
It still kinda rubs me the wrong way that they aged down the commander and serena joy, idk why but I just never can feel all that intimidated by them because of their age. Serena always just seems like the annoying customer who'd immediately ask for the manager at the slightest inconvenience
Anytime Ann Dowd is in a movie or television series I take note. She is a gifted artist and amazing actor.
I didn't really approve of this change either. In the book Offred goes out of her way to describe Serena and the commander as not particually attractive. The commander was explicitly described as "pathetic" in terms of his physical appearance, once his intimidating uniform was removed, which was an important allegory for his character as a whole. Glamourising him into the "sexy bad guy" took away that symbol.
It’s interesting to hear that changing Serena’s age was a choice to enrich the dynamic between her and Offred and that does make sense for the new storyline’s in the show. I initially thought it was just the typical American thing of making everyone more attractive in TV and movies.
@@househeadericmdhousehead9118 Fantastic actress and from what I've seen, a truly lovely person.
Lol now they're called 'Karens'
I read the book, way back when it first came out, and while there were some departures from the book in the show, they were well done and woven in to the show seamlessly so you didn't feel a jolt. I love the fact that Margaret Atwood is part of the television production, so it's still her vision and her voice.
The show is good but not seeing what they did to black people because it made whites uncomfortable made me mad.
It's always so weird when I hear women say all I want/wanted was a baby. It's not a 'baby" it's a human which for a short time does live in an infant stage of existence sure. But it is not just a baby, something that will always wear diapers and drink from a bottle, lol. But it seems like some women only see that part of things when they have baby fever.
Yes! Finally somebody voiced what I was thinking!
Thankyou for that!
Baby's are humans, not different creatures.
Exactly. So many children are put into toxic parental relationships. It’s not abuse, but comes from the parent effecting the children from a young age.
Aside from that when I think about being a mother, not pregnancy, just raising a child, it makes me so uncomfortable and disgusted. Don’t even get me started on pregnancy.
It’s real fucking cute to have the perfect nursery and family, but it’s not realistic. It’s not that simple
Many women unfortunately desire a baby and these are usually the type of women who love being pregnant and breastfeeding, and enjoy the stage when their child is dependent upon them but as soon as the child begins to get both physically more independent and is asking questions, of which not even the most religiously dogmatic mother is always going to be convincing in regards of her answers. My (covert narcissistic) mother was like this: she told me she saw my father and "wanted to have his babies" at which I felt sick. It reduced myself and my 5 siblings to objects and possessions which are mainly focused upon as being due to her lust for my father, and her enjoyment of the dependent stages I mentioned meant she definitely did not really like the stage which occupy the vast number of years of a child growing up into adulthood when they question and seek to garner some independence over their bodies, tries to form their own thoughts and avoid being suffocated by a dogmatic parent.
I think some people definitely are doing what you are describing but the baby comes first before the toddler then kid then adult. I think most well rounded people when they say they want a baby they are meaning they want to start their family or continue their family which consists of course of multiple individual people who grow together.
Serena obviously is not well rounded though of course lol
This is interesting because an old friend of mine just recently had a baby. She’s 19 years old and when we were 16 she had many pregnancy scares and supposedly got pregnant at 17 and had a miscarriage (idk if that’s true). I realize that she was obsessed with having a baby when she started hooking up with guys and each guy she hooked up with she had a pregnancy scare. You’d think that after her “first pregnancy” she’d be more careful about having kids but obviously that was her intention. And when she told me about these pregnancy scares she seemed excited about it. I don’t understand why you’d want to have a baby during high school, but at least she had her child after we graduated. But I feel like after her baby fever dies down she’s gonna be a bad mother
I have read the book and watch the series. Enjoy both!
Leah Simmons how do you like it know since it is really happening
I like how the series goes into more detail about the main characters, how broken they are, their weaknesses.
The show has done a great job at modernizing and expanding the story telling and world building that was quickly suggested by the book. I liked the book for what it was then and love the show for what it is now.
the book is great. I can't believe how maraget atwood came up with all of the details.
but the show gave life to the story. the way they created the characters made it feel so much more real than the book ever did
based on history.
It’s fascinating how many developments that came about only in the series, not in the original book, are included in The Testaments.
if a team of writers come along and fix your work for you and even take you on as a consultant when they don't have to because you already sold all the rights to the book years previously and don't own any part of it any more... well you'd be pretty grateful they did all that work for you wouldn't you
The show is amazing, it really elevates the book - the end of it was so frustrating. I read it in sixth form - we were doing a module on dystopias.
I read the book in 12th grade and we watched the show while reading it. The show is very different from the book but I love how the show alters the storyline to fit modern times
yeah it’s such an incredible adaptation. it’s faithful to the source material while updating it and modernising and expanding upon it.
My sister binged this show after giving birth to her only daughter. She said the bridge scene had her chocking up and she held her daughter for hours.
Obviously after that she recommended I watch it. I'm hesitant... But maybe one day
In my unrequested opinion you should. I'm a total wuss when it comes to violence and stuff like that in movies or TV, but this show is so good, so all encompassing, you accept any violence as par for the course and move on. The story is what's important. They know that too and don't draw out violent scenes or use it as a lazy substitute for words, as so many shows do. Just try the first episode. If you get through that you're golden. It's worth it, trust me.
You watch now
I was scared to watch it, but I quickly became obsessed. It's a fantastic and powerful show. I will admit that after watching it I did have some anger towards men and religion that I needed to reign in!
I watched it. It’s very dark but it’s interesting. It’s fine if you dig heavy topics.
Take your time. You need to be mentally prepare for this but suggest you should watch this.
I read the book twice. It was required reading for one of my classes in high school. I went to an all girl Catholic school. Read it again as an adult and I love the show!
oh that's interesting because if you look at the Mother and Baby homes and Magdalen Laundries run by the Catholic Church in Ireland they are exactly like Gilead. The police kidnapped pregnant women and brought them to the homes, if they tried to escape they were brought back, they were then forced to work for years and their babies were stolen from them and sold for 1000 dollars a piece to couples in the United States... This was all done in full knowledge of the state and the state gave money to the Catholic Church to help fund this.
The only difference is in Gilead they take great care of the babies whereas in those homes the babies were neglected until they were adopted and infant mortality was far higher than anywhere else at the time, the babies were then buried in unmarked mass graves. This wouldn't happen in Gilead.
So it's interesting that a Catholic school would want you to read a book which is basically "what if what the Catholics did in Ireland happened in the US as well?"
@@therabbithat The Sons of Jacob aren't Catholic.
"Tough show to binge." Amen! (I mean . . . Praise be.) I'm sure I'll finish it by the time I retire, 15-ish years from now.
I watched it all in a week!
Watched it all in 4 days lol. I was sad. But I was also sick so nothing else to do!
Angela me too!!!
@Dax Rider So quirky!!
Read the book about 20 years ago. Just starting Atwood’s sequel. It’s frightening how friggin smart she is and spot on 👀😳🙀😩 🐑🗽
Spot on with what?
What the narrator calls "the Salvaging" is actually a Particicution. Aunt Lydia even says it's a Particicution in the clip.
Everytime time I see moira reunite with Luke.. as in family?
Of course
My heart
Hello from the east coast - Nova Scotia. I first read the book back in the early 1990s, and I saw the movie they made of it that starred Natasha Richardson. I love the show, it really takes the story to a much higher level.
Margaret Atwood is a huge influence for me to be an author.
I read the book in high school and we just thought how crazy that this couldn’t possibly happen and I also saw the original movie with Faye dunaway, Natasha Richardson and Robert Duvall .. look at our world now..
Hello from Alberta - I read the book a year or two after it was out in 1985. I saw the 1990 movie when it was out in the theatres.
I have read the novel and watched the series and loved both!! I'm looking forward to reading the sequel The Testaments which is coming out in a couple days!!!
M B: So excited about the sequel.
Had to read the book for AP Lit and it was definitely one of the easier books to get through in that class, oddly enough. Probably wouldn't have watched the show had I not had to read the book but now that I started I'm totally hooked.
I read the book a very long time ago and while I knew it was different, the differences didn't seem to materially change the story. Well, until it went beyond the book, but that was fine. We all wondered what happened to her after the events of the book; now we have a story about that.
Me and my husband watch this, and are pissed of by the end. But we love the show and can't stop watching
Carmen Gray: Pissed off how 52+ kids got out of Gilead?
I have read the book, as well as the tv show. there was also a movie back in the 90's it too followed the book, it changed some aspects to make it more dramatic.
I liked how with the tv show they had the author board, she even appeared in one of the early episodes. She has also kept a close eye on the production of season two.
sec tions of the book as in dialog have been used in season two.
I finally watched the film - Faye Dunaway plays Serena and Natasha Richardson (RIP) plays Offred; It's on Amazon to rent or buy if anyone is interested in noting the differences.
I read the book in high school. I don't remember the story that well. I remember the vivid imagery in it, like the colors of the uniforms and the description of the ceremony that made it a "banned book." Those images carried into the TV show, exactly. It's a pretty timeless story, so I'm not surprised they were able to so seamlessly move it forward 3 or 4 decades.
I love the forbidden love story between Nick and June..For me that’s the most fascinating part of the show..in all the drama I see a epic love story ❤️❤️
I read the book long ago and also the Madd Addam Trilogy. I also saw the original film. When HMT was announced for serialization I thought "why?" it has already been filmed and I wanted to see Oryx & Crake et. al. filmed instead.
When I saw the first episode I quickly changed my mind.
This is the only show that's made me cry nearly every episode, it's so easy to get immersed in and when I finished season 3 I was soooo disappointed when I found out s4 wasn't yet out
Great job! I really love your energy and this was a pleasure. God bless you and have a great day!
No one really talks about how this show tackles the refugee/immigration "crisis"
Because it didn't exist in the 1980s when the book was written, so in the TV show, it never happened.
@@angelajohnson5728 I think she meant from Canada's perspective, in the story, not the actual one happening right now lol.
@@angelajohnson5728 that's not true, the "immigration crisis" doesn't exist now and it didn't exist in the 80s... it's just the US didn't separate kids from their parents and then sexually assault them and put them in cages in the 80s.. that's not an immigration crisis that's a moral crisis
There have always been refugees, in 1907 there were 1 million people immigrated to the US, for example, there were always people who were against that, who wanted racial quotas, etc. Nothing is new it's just being reframed all the time
What "crisis"? The novel was published in 1985. The show is based on the novel.
Yes, I read the Handmaid's Tale, long before the current TV show version. I just was able to borrow Atwood's sequel called the Testaments ( follows 15 years after HT) from my local library, and the only main character that carries over is Aunt Lydia, who is read by Ann Dowd in the Audiobook version, which should make the TV fans determined to get it.
Technically all three characters were at least in theory introduced in The Handmaid's Tale but I will say no more in case it isn't clear to others and is seen as spoilers
@@effyreads88 thanks, that is good to know. I'll have to get on the Library waiting list to borrow Handmaid's Tale again so I can refresh my memory of how they were introduced and what their connections are. When I saw that there wasn't a wait list on the sequel yet (it was just released 9/10 so my library may have just acquired it), I had to grab my chance while I could before there is a big line.
So Aunt Lydia lives on.
So that horrid woman lives on 15 years later..There is talk of the series continuing on after season 4..Maybe even having more seasons.
Moving into the sequal.
Read it years ago. One of the first Atwood books I'd ever read. Really enjoyed (if that's the right word for it, lol) that book. I want to read it again soon... Have never seen the series, I don't have netflix...
It's on Hulu and you can get a free month.
It’s on the channel 4 app for free
A friend of mine just got me into the show and I bought the book on audible! I am OBSESSED... It is disturbing on how real this could be. SCARY ... Great book. I love how the show has not distorted the book too much and the changes were minors but the extensions... are amazing, and go really well with the book. This book and show has made me REALLY appreciative of my freedoms.
We started watching the series through Netflix a few weeks ago. I am now re-reading the book. We also have bought and read the 2nd book which is excellent. Despite the differences between the book and the series,. I do believe that the series does a good job of portraying the characters and explains a lot more of where they came from and some of the other things which are just inferred in the book.
Netflix? I thought only Hulu had this show.
The show has done an excellent job of fleshing out the book, which often felt so isolated and in the dark, though the book is still excellent and that's part of why it is. The recent follow up the Testament is also very good.
Rebecca, That blouse looks AMAZING !!!!! also, good video !
I just started watching recently and binged, watching all seasons in a few days. I was obsessed, and really like the idea of June and Nick together. I think June just may be too different after this. I digress 😊, I’ve been reluctant to read the book, thought maybe I’d wait until after the series, but downloaded it when we learned no new season until 2021.
I read the book years ago and loved it. I watched the first season of the show while still living in the states and felt they did a great job. I total agree...not a show I can binge watch!
I am happy to hear you say you are a Canadian. I am too…London, Ontario. I absolutely LOVE the scenes done in Toronto
, as I bet every Canadian does too. I am writing this comment on July17, 2022 when the USA is seeing Women’s Rights being striped away….CANCELLED. Now when I watch the show I am seeing it as real life, not just a fictional book. Our National Treasure, Margaret Atwood must be psychic! I loved the Handmaids Tale Movie done in 1990. I even bought the the DVD recently. In the 90s I thought it was fiction, but now…oh god in Heaven, it’s coming true. Even though I am Canadian, I fear for women all over the world. I think it’s because Women are stronger now, old men are worrying we may replace them. And so we should. Liz Cheney said recently…”men are running the world and it’s not going all that well”
I read the book about a decade ago so I have forgotten a lot of it. Thanks for the comparison!
This IS the Gilead and I want you to make more msmojo top 10 videos for me to watch!! Jussssssst kidding. ;)
You’re right. It is such a tough show to binge! It took me so long to finish all 3 seasons. I was only able to watch like 1-2 episodes a night.
Jason Noury I recently watched all three seasons in a week. Completely ignored all the other shows I usually watch because I couldn’t think of anything but this show.
This is an INCREDIBLY difficult show to binge. I watch it bc it’s that good. But it also makes me anxious. I definitely feel the parallels. The loss of body autonomy being a big one. (Hello Dr Pan of California!) The more liberty we give away for perceived security the closer we get to Gilead. So yeah...uncomfortable to binge. One episode at a time. That’s about all I can do. Apparently Margaret Atwood has written a sequel to the Handmaids tale! It will be interesting to see how the response to the show shaped her future based story! 📖
KC I feel you. I can do two at a time. It is depressing to watch in this time of the world. Women facing such loss of hard fought for rights, rise of misogynistic evangelicalism and climate devastation!
I’m hoping for a prequel in either book form or as a movie or series. Like, how did Gilead get started etc, but more in-depth.
You get that in The Testaments.
Never miss an ep but I also taught the book, which has been really an interesting experience. The class I was teaching it in was about paranoia, which came down a lot to surveillance, so obviously there's a lot here. Discussions tended to get quite political, but not so much about present day politics, but really what Atwood was concerned with: the politics of the mid 1980s, with Reagan, etc. Hoping to do it again at some point!
My mother was teaching English and History, among other subjects at senior high school until the lockdown and now she's facing surgery so isn't intending to return to work for a while if at all but I really wish she had read it and ad t teach it - she is very dogmatic and very anti-feminist,in my view, and I think the book would help despite it likely upsetting her over the use of Christianity to portray Gilead's control of women's reproductive abilities. At University, I undertook a double major for my first degree and one of my subjects was in Gender Studies. I'm sure that some point the current students are studying this book and The Testaments....
Wait, you're Canadian? That's so cool! (I am too!)🇨🇦
Yeah just think what mojo is like in the handmaids tail universe
Have I read the book? LOL Yes, at least a dozen times. The first time was about 20 years ago. Since then, I've read almost everything Atwood has ever written.
Kris Me too, she is awesomely diverse!
I read the book RIGHT before watching the show, and it is easily one of my favourite books now. The changes they made are big for the show, but still feel true to the original narrative, I feel. At least, they feel like it COULD happen there in Gilead and makes sense alongside the story.
I love both the book and the show! I just started reading the sequel novel too!
I read the book and I absolutely adored it. One of my favourites
Totally read it!
I read the book for the first time in the early 90s when the original movie came out. I then discovered Orix & Crake by Atwood, it is a trilogy and is more relevant today than it ever was. Hulu has recently acquired the rights to this story, I have been waiting for a screen adaptation for many years.
I have read the book and ready to read the second one coming out soon September 12
And wait You are Canadian???? Ah sister hugs from Toronto LOL
Very very crazy great list I like it a lot
The book was great. The show seemed to be good in the beginning but the main character Offred is straying to be more rebellious and "badass" which I find unrealistic. I can't help but think it has to do with the hypocracy of the main actress who is a part of a cult herself, and needs to be feeding her ego and celebrity by pretending she cares about issues such as womens' rights or freedom of speech. She refuses to hear any critique of her "religion", so it seems two-faced to act like her character in the show does, or fights for real human rights. Unfortunately it is very rare to find any media take this up or ask her directly. They avoid the topic with a ten-foot pole. Some subjects are off limits. The parallels are astounding, but the hypocracy and slack morals of all involved seem glaring. The real Offred got herself in the predicament because she was precisely like Lizzy Moss, she didn't speak up to real injustice. She turned a blind eye and looked out for her own. Then only when it was too late, did she wake up. Unfortunately the actress still has yet to, but her revision of the book portrays her as the heroin she wants to be in the public eye. Under his eye.
Yeah I think it's completely against her character to be so badass. She was so meek in the book. Not everyone is a strong badass. If you beat down someone to the point their nothing but a handmaid most won't question authority or muddy the waters at all. It seems like they wanted to make June some big feminist role model but that's not who she was originally.
I agree that June in the show is very different from Offred in the book, but I really like how her character has developed. And I think Elisabeth Moss is an incredible actress. She portrays the emotions of June so well. I thought the scenes where June was stuck in the hospital watching over Ofglen were particularly powerful. As far as her religion, when you grow up in a certain church, it feels much more normal and acceptable than it does to outsiders. I think she has developed her own opinions on social issues and that her personal beliefs align with the show's message. It also depends on how you look at organized religion. People are so quick to calls things cults. To me, all organized religion seems like a cult, but I believe it's each person's right to decide what they want to believe and associate themselves with, as long as they are not personally harming others.
Katy Blessing Scientology was made up by a sci- fi author to win a bet. So it’s still new enough to be considered a cult, especially with how it treats its members.
@@doublepinkstar June was never stuck in the hospital watching over Ofglen. By that time, Commander Glen's entire household had been executed (after Ofglen #2 did her suicide bombing thing). You're thinking of Ofmatthew (Natalie).
I read it 5 years ago. It was of course before the show and I didn’t even know there would be a show. Loved the book.
I am listening to it on audible now. So far so good. I have already binged the show. It is great.
Like yourself, I also have it on Audible and also "The Testaments". Have you listened to the latter? I so, what did you think? I enjoyed it but found Lydia a bit ridiculous in terms of the disingenuousness that we're supposed to believe she engaged in whilst the tv series shows no signs of this at all., quite the opposite so they';ll have to bridge the two books and in season 4 r so to fix this issue.
@@Adara007 no I have not listened to the latter. I am also finding I like the show better then the book and that is unusual for me.
ı am just watching the show and i am in last episodes of the second season and this show is AWESOME. Deflnltely i am going to read the book
I LOVE the reunion scene with Luke and Moira!
Lovely video
I read the book after watching the first season. The Handmaid's tale gets me moody too, it kind of feels like a light depression. When I read that the new book (The Testaments) show how Gilead is going down I decided to read it, just for a bit of hope. I am planning to do that soon to get me back on track. I finished the 3rd season a few days ago and I am already waiting for the 4th. To me, this series is incredibly precious and important and if I were a teacher, I would use it a lot.
"Gilead in the show is more diverse"
*shows white woman and white child*
Well in the book all handmaids are white
interesting video... i have not read the book but love the show... i binge watched it... cant wait for season 5
It's so good!
Was surprised when they did the filming around Toronto's City Hall
I think they changed the first salvaging because they knew what they were going to do for Fred's death. How they killed him in the woods was basically a mirror image of the first salvaging.
The same song plays during both and the women circle around the man while June gives the first kick
It was actually very beautifully done
Edit: lol I guess thats the beauty of seeing this video after finishing season 4 🤣 I didn't see how old this video was when I wrote the comment😅😂
I like how the series shows other characters lives and perspectives. There was also insight into a lead up of how Gilead came to be in place of America basically. In the book nothing like that happens to Janine but as horrific as Janine and Emily's punishments are and lives now it's good we get to see what happens to them aswell as June
I just can say that in the book I didn’t cry, in the tv show I can’t stop crying every two episodes.
Another lesser-known Atwood novel has been adapted and is playing on Netflix. It's called Alias Grace, and it's superb.
I read the book about twenty years ago. I think the TV series is a wonderful adaptation. And, the way that the story has continued, is outstanding.
For me the biggest differences between the book and TV series are, June doesn't have Nick's baby in the book, she is pregnant in the end though, and Luke is thought to be dead on the book - not living in Canada. In fact, Canada is not portrayed as such an amazing place helping refugees of Gilead at all in the book. I have always preferred books to films etc until this! The series says so much more that I actually prefer it to the book.
I love the series, I read the book and while I was moving from Az to Texas I listened to the audio book in which Elizabeth Moss (June) was reading it and I loved it. It's a great series but just so realistic it's kind of scary.
I finally saw the voice of Watchmojo! I think I heard one other woman and a gentleman but you're the voice of the channel where I am concerned
The book is amazing! I reading it now.
Such an amazing show I found it to be stressful to binge watch. But I still did it anyway because the show was amazing. But the emotions were a bit hard to bare at times. It was just a lot.
Started watching the show BECAUSE I was so intrigued by the book!
I read the book and I love the series too, I also recommend a book called Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy
a very tough show to binge.. could not agree more
I've been looking at it since it premiered.
I just got done watching Season 1 again. I can’t believe I made it through the first time when it was so hard the second time around. Absolutely horrifying.
read the book almost 20 years ago. I had forgotten what June's character was like. Love love the series. They have done a fantastic job. Now listening to the audiobook read by Lizzie Moss herself, which merges both the book and show so beautifully together.
ps. the film pales in comparison. I think i watched it before i read the book?
One difference is that in the book, "Serena Joy" is not her actual name but something June made up or exaggerated from her TV character. The name is mocked there several times.
Personally, I will intend to read Margaret Atwood's classic novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," sometime in the future. As for the TV series, I wondered whether the author approved of the changes from the premise of her novel.
Robert Polanco of course she did
Yes, she did. She even participated in the adaptation. And the novel is amazing, I really recommend it.
I hated the novel.
@@IzzysTravelDiaries - Like what the hell is your problem with Margaret Atwood's novel? Are you some kind of conservative and anti-feminist fool or something? Whatever it is I want to know!
@@robertpolanco1973 If you look at my other responses, I don't like her writing style. She's spending pages on Scrabble, nightly prayers, but when it's about how June lost her family or how she was fired, it's all over in a page or two. It was so boring, when I tried to read it on the train, my eyes would rather stare at the countryside than read. I had to force myself to pay attention.
It’s been over 30 years since i read the book. I first got to learn of the novel after it won the Arthur C. Clarke award. My recollection is that the Giles’s of the book was more violent that the show with rampant apartheid and antisemitism. I was intrigued when it was made into a movie - but I was totally bored by that interpretation of the novel.
The movie basically did a checklist of the chapters, ticking them off one by one. The only significant difference was the ending, which still annoys me. The novel has an ambiguous ending, but since American audiences can't cope unless there's a happy ending, the director and writer provided one.
The same people hold the rights to the movie and the TV show, btw. That's why some of the dialogue in the TV show is word-for-word identical to the movie.
I read the book when it first came out.
I read the book years ago, long before the movie or the series came out. I recently re-read it. One thing I like about the series is that it goes further than the book does, the ending of the book leaves you hanging, you never really find out what happens to June although we do know the Gilead regime ended at some point.
I read the book and also saw the original film, both when they were first released. 🙂