More than half of adults think the current political climate closely mirrors the dystopian horrors featured in The Handmaid’s Tale, new research has found.
Channel 4’s hit dystopian television series – adapted from Margaret Atwood’s best-selling 1985 novel about a totalitarian society, Gilead, ruled by a fundamentalist regime that sees certain women reduced to state property for the pure reason of birthing a child for a wealthy family – returned for its sixth and final season last week.