{"id":5050,"date":"2017-06-24T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2017-07-03T00:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T12:43:55","slug":"box-watch-the-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-the-handmaids-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/fe\/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_intertitle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/fe\/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_intertitle.png\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/a>\u00a0was my first <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretatwood.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret Atwood<\/a> book. It introduced me to her other writing. I&#8217;m a fan.<\/p>\n<p>So when I heard last year about this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">television adaptation<\/a>, I was prepped and ready to <em>hate it hate it hate it<\/em> so much that I wasn&#8217;t going to even bother wasting my time <em>watching<\/em> it.\u00a0And then\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First ep in and I&#8217;m on the fence: great world-building but I don&#8217;t like the flashbacks \u2014 I&#8217;d read the book, dammit; viewers should either fill in the gaps or use their damned library cards if they were confused. Second ep in and I&#8217;m immersed: the flashbacks aren&#8217;t gratuitous; and lead (and producer) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elisabeth_Moss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisabeth Moss<\/a>\u2019 performance is television gold. The eps are consumed in rapid succession \u2014 I read somewhere that it&#8217;s been renewed for a second season \u2014 and then the season ends\u00a0<em>just where the book ends<\/em> and something goes off in my head:<\/p>\n<p><em>They&#8217;ve gone off-book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been this excited about a sophomore season since I don&#8217;t know how long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale\u00a0was my first Margaret Atwood book. It introduced me to her other writing. I&#8217;m a fan. So when I heard last year about this\u00a0television adaptation, I was prepped and ready to hate it hate it hate it so much that I wasn&#8217;t going to even bother wasting my time watching it.\u00a0And then\u2026 First &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-the-handmaids-tale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[1263,1262,1261],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-elisabeth-moss","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-the-handmaids-tale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}