A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
SERIES INFO Genre: Drama Stars: Max Minghella, Joseph Fiennes, O.T. Fagbenle, Ann Dowd, Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer, Nina Kiri Series Plot: In a dystopian near-future, the totalitarian and Christian-fundamentalist government of Gilead rules the former United States amidst an ongoing civil war and subjugates women, who are not allowed to work, control money, or even read. Widespread infertility due to environmental contamination has resulted in the conscription of young fertile women—called Handmaids, according to biblical precedent—who are assigned to the homes of the elite, where they must have ritualized sex with the men in order to become pregnant and bear children for those men and their wives.
EPISODE INFO Title: Heroic Airdate: 2019-07-17 Episode plot: Confined in a hospital, June’s sanity begins to fray. An encounter with Serena Joy forces June to reassess her recent actions.
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