In my 2017 review of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” I referenced the 1985 book’s chronicle of society’s collapse. Eight years later, as the show’s sixth and final season gets underway, Margaret Atwood’s guesswork has proven eerily accurate.
Buoying “The Handmaid’s Tale” in its first season, other than Elisabeth Moss’ wrenching performance as June, was the misguided idea that the show’s dystopia could never happen here, regardless of how bad things looked at the outset of Donald Trump’s first four-year term.
