Hulu just dropped the first full trailer for its series adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, a streaming television event with truly creepy timing sure to give us all horrible nightmares—or rather, to provide an especially vivid variation on the nightmares we’re already having.
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“We only wanted to make the world better,” insists Joseph Fiennes as the Commander. “Better?” asks a crying Offred, played by Elizabeth Moss. “Better never means better for everyone,” he explains with apologetic menace.
Anybody else feeling a little ill?
DISCUSSION
This trailer legitimately made me cry because it feels like it’s just so close to this side of possibility. I just finished re-reading the book in anticipation of this series and it was truly terrifying.
All that said, with it so fresh in my mind, Joseph Fiennes is too young to be the Commander. Whoever is playing Serena Joy is also too young. Ann Dowd is perfect as Aunt Lydia, though.