The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 1, 2017). Created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood

摘要

One of the reasons why television has been influential in challenging received notions about reproduction, sex and sexuality, and ‘the family’ (broadly defined) is its fairground halls of mirrors-style ability to show viewers their lives at a productive remove. When | was growing up in 1990s England, television (watched, of course, on television sets) was a cozy, yet intermittently controversial, medium. Its literal situation in the midst of families broke taboos and began conversations. Many column inches were given over to whether or not particular series, episodes, and storylines were suitable for screening before the 9pm ‘watershed’, after which time content was deemed to be ‘too grown up’ for children.