You claim that it’s about women, but it’s not. It’s about white women.

The issue with what Atwood did was that she didn’t do anything with the whole ethnic-cleansing thing.

If you think its true then how are they supposed to handle it? Atwood addressed in a way that would be the most realistic and that’s unacceptable. The showrunners did it in a way that’s the most PC and accomodating and thats no good either. Then what would be?

The rise of the splintered media focus means no television show will EVER have the impact of, say, a “Roots” or “The Holocaust” or “The Day After”.

It’s trying to say that The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t as revolutionary as it thinks (true) because it has no idea how to handle race (also true), because white women don’t care about black women (eeeeeeehh...)

Well, in the book, Atwood explained it in a way you would expect far-right christian fundamentalists would: through genocide. All jews, and non-whites are deported and/or killed. The showrunners thought that depicting that on TV wouldn’t fly in today’s age, so they changed it around to make Gilead more accepting of…

I can’t help but think that the dings against Margaret Atwood are dangerously close to the No True Scotsman fallacy. The Handmaid’s Tale (book) isn’t about marginalized groups; it’s about women. Is it really right to fault her for how she chose to focus the book? Personally, I think it’s okay to write a work about one…

Something about this article rubs me the wrong way. The Handmaid’s Tale handled race with all the subtlety that it handled anything (which is to say, none), and it had absolutely no idea what show it wanted to be (misery porn? Revolution porn? Who knows?). But intersectionality goes both ways, doesn’t it? It feels…

Looks fun, plus I love Sonequa in pretty much everything.

this feels more like a ‘for the grand dad’s’ then for the dads. how many men in their 30's and 40's (or heck, 50's at this point) are going to have grown up with this car poster on their walls?

I hope this movie is only jingoistic takedowns of the out of touch European elites.

I vaguely remember he has a blog that gently drifted into some “Debate me, coward”/”Logic Man” bullshit, but with that game show host detachment. And hell, privately, he might be the worst.

Just to be clear: there’s (essentially) a made-for-TV version of Mannequin from 1988 starting Vanna White? Tell me they got Alan Parsons Project to do the title song.

She’s got some of that Christie Brinkley magic (I love what they did with her on Parks & Rec).

I don’t know......he wasn’t on our flight.

That scene came while the story was still in the ‘character setup’ phase so no harm done. Plus its in every teaser and trailer.

Jeebus, they talk about him the way Trump’s fans do. 

Uh oh, here they come.

BUT HE MARCHED WITH MLK!!! Ugh why why why do they keep pushing this fool down my throat?!

This is beyond being tone-deaf and out of touch. I think Bernie probably just doesn’t give a shit. I’m still more disappointed in Ocasio-Cortez and Omar are backing this fool.