'The Handmaid's Tale' Hulu Series to Stream First Three Episodes This Month
Hulu is gearing up to release the first three episodes of the highly anticipated television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's best-selling dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale."
The series premiere titled "Offred" will be featuring the main protagonist of the story, Offred (Elisabeth Moss), who is one of the very few fertile women living in the oppressive Republic of Gilead in dystopian times. Fertile women like Offred are called Handmaids and are brought to the homes of the elite, where they are tasked to bear the couple a child via ritualized intercourse with the men of the house.
The first episode will feature Offred's struggles as she becomes the reproductive surrogate for a powerful commander named Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his resentful wife, Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski).
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Handmaids are a caste of fertile women forced into sexual servitude in a last-ditch attempt to repopulate a dystopian world that has fallen prey to widespread infertility due to environmental contamination.
Offred will have to navigate her life between commanders and their often-cruel wives, domestic Marthas and her fellow Handmaids, all the while keeping her head down and trying to survive by all means possible in order to live long enough to find the daughter that was previously taken from her.
"The Handmaid's Tale" has been written for television by Bruce Miller, who serves as executive producer along with Warren Littlefield, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Ilene Chaiken. Reed Morano directed and also executive produced the first three episodes which will all be streamed together when the series premieres on Wednesday, April 26 on Hulu.
The subsequent episodes will then be added weekly every Wednesday. The first two episodes of the series will also be aired in Canada on Sunday, April 30 on Bravo.
Watch the official trailer posted on the series' Facebook page below.
