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Author Margaret Atwood continues to battle against the oppression of women’s rights by the government on the heels of a leaked draft opinion revealing the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade. “Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have babies are enslaved because the state…

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy’s historical graphic novel War Bears will come to televison. WOW! Unlimited Media has optioned the 2019 graphic novel for an animated series adaptation. War Bears is a gloriously unique tale about a young comic book artist during World War 2, who creates a popular series…

Sam Adams, a literary agent whose career began in the postwar years at Warner Bros. and ended with the deal to bring The Handmaid’s Tale to the big screen, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 94. Adams’ client list included Handmaid’s author Margaret Atwood, the recently-deceased Peter Bogdanovich, Saturday…

SPOILER ALERT:  This story contains lots of details of the Season 4 finale of The Handmaid’s Tale that launched tonight on Hulu.  EXCLUSIVE:“Under Her Eye.” The spray paint on the side of a barn with the dead and beaten body of once powerful Commander Fred Waterford near the end of the Season 4 finale of The Handmaid's…

As in the dystopian fictional world of The Handmaid's Tale, in real life, one of the biggest obstacles of the upcoming fourth season of the Hulu drama was getting into Canada. Though for the Elisabeth Moss starring series that barricade of sorts was more about the coronavirus pandemic than escaping a totalitarian…

"We fight," declares Elisabeth Moss' June in the new teaser for the upcoming fourth season of The Handmaid's Tale. As you can see above, that's an understatement if this latest look is any indication of the season to come. And more Handmaid's Tale is coming soon-ish. With what seems like more action and battle scars…

The horrors of the world of The Handmaid's Tale have perhaps never loomed so large and lucid as they do in the Washington DC-set ‘Household’ episode of the Hulu series' third season. "Basically it is stripping America of its freedom and silencing it at its core," said producer designer Elisabeth Williams of the…

EXCLUSIVE: VH1 Trailblazers Honors will celebrate two women closely associated with some timely subjects next month: The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke. They will be feted as vanguards along with previously announced honorees House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and…

Margaret Atwood's vision of a post-Handmaid’s Tale world will be revealed next September, when the author’s The Testaments is released, and the creator of all things Gilead promises “almost everything” readers have ever asked about the fictional, oppressive republic that was the inspiration for the new book. The book…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of the Season 2 finale of The Handmaid’s Tale that was posted on Hulu last night. "It's our job as people who are telling fictional stories [that] if you're going to reflect the world, show the world as it is," The Handmaid's Tale showrunner Bruce Miller said of the bracing…

Now that you’ve seen the Season Two finale of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale – or even if you haven’t yet – author Margaret Atwood has something she’d like you to know about her original 1985 book, or more specifically, all the “bad things” included therein. “I didn’t make them up,” says the writer in this exclusive new…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 finale. The Bible says that "in the beginning there was the Word." Tonight, with the just launched Season 2 ender of The Handmaid's Tale, "The Word," as the episode is called, was put to the test and embarked on a new beginning for a…