"The Handmaid's Tale" is critical to the success of Hulu's Live TV service | TechCrunch
Part of the popularity of the show comes from the uncanny parallels to today's present-day political situation. Vulture aptly describes the potential similarities between present-day reality and the dystopia depicted in the series:
Offred says that she is awake to the world now, that she was asleep before. "That's how we let it happen," she thinks. "Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it." The change was incremental at first: Their rights were suspended in the interest of national security, in the name of fighting terrorism. They were asked to make sacrifices, perhaps, to give up just a little of their rights and freedoms for the greater good. Once you've made one compromise, what's another? What's one step more?
This is how they take everything from you: one thing at a time.
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