Sophy Cullington dives into the latest Sally Rooney TV adaptation, considering its mixed reception, frank depiction of polygamy, and Alison Oliver’s debut performance.
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Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
In 1985, during a decade characterised by fervent sexual politics, Margaret Atwood published her landmark dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”. It prophesises that in the near future, America has been turned into a totalitarian theocracy called Gilead in which fertile women, dubbed “Handmaids”, are owned by the state and forced to partake in a form […]