Finished The Handmaid’s Tale last night. After a circular path towards TV series-dom it ended as the book did. The final episode was very good, a reversion to the earlier ones after a few which did the backstory thing that caused the middle bit to sag. The worst of these was the backstory of how Gilead and the Handmaids came to be. Luckily the performances were excellent by and large, the story was good, and the feminism strong (for all that the makers deny it). The morning after watching it I woke up to the news that a man who would be a commander in Gilead has won the nomination for Republican candidate to be the senator for Alabama. So Gilead is not completely beyond the bonds of possibility.
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