The Handmaid's Tale
It's from 2017, when you were 11.
- Network
- Hulu
- Genre
- Dystopian drama
- Based on
- the novel by Margaret Atwood
- Premiered
- 2017
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About
As of 2026, it's 9 years old.
The Handmaid's Tale adapted Margaret Atwood's dystopia into a harrowing, beautifully made drama about a totalitarian regime that strips women of their rights and bodies. It is unflinching and frequently difficult to watch, and that discomfort is precisely the point.
Its stark imagery — the red robes, the white bonnets — became a genuine symbol used in real-world protests, a rare case of a TV show's iconography entering political life directly.
Powerful, bleak, and disturbingly resonant, The Handmaid's Tale is the kind of drama that lingers long after it ends and reminds you exactly why it was made.
The Handmaid's Tale season by season
The Handmaid's Tale ran for 6 seasons (2017–2025) across 66 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
