The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1
The Handmaid's Tale (2017-) is an American drama web television series, airing on Hulu, about a dystopian future where women's rights are obliterated and being anything but straight, or outside of the Christian ideal, is regarded as an abomination. … more »
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Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either. They said it would be temporary. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
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