Hulu to Premiere 'The Handmaid's Tale' in April 2017
Hulu is set to premiere The Handmaid's Tale on April 26, 2017. The ten episode series adapts the award-winning novel written by Margaret Atwood, and stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred, a woman living in a totalitarian society where women are considered the property of the state.
The synopsis reads below: The drama series, based on the award-winning, best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.
Source: Collider
