How The Handmaid’s Tale fell from grace
THERE IS A COMMON MISPERCEPTION THAT HULU’S THE Handmaid’s Tale ended its first season on the very last page of Margaret Atwood’s novel, when the secret police loads Offred (Elisabeth Moss) into a van. But the book continues from there, with a crucial epilogue set at an academic conference 200 years in the future. A parody of precious academic discourse whose lightness is striking
