i read the handmaid's tail when it came out and remembered enjoying but -too be honest i couldn't recal a lot of detail. i thought the first tv series was terrific - some great acting and a terrible, clammy atmosphere i felt really worked in suggesting how the characters were all trapped in a horrific situation. i gave up on the second series as it just seemed too much - too dark, too cruel and too upsetting with increasingly relevance to our modern world. my wife has watched it all and loved it - we watched the last episode together and i really enjoyed it - such a relief that there was some hope and more sense of another saner and safer world (a bit like how i see scotland in relation to the right wing coup underway in england now)

i'm looking forward to reading the sequel once fiona has finished it. i'm guessing it will be more directly political, hope so