Margaret atwood handmaids tale cameo

Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale was famously adapted from the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, however, the show also secretly included a cameo from the author in The Handmaid's Tale series premiere.

Although much more was introduced to the story since The Handmaid's Tale season 1, the series' first season faithfully followed 's The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood. A dystopian novel set in a futuristic post-U.S.

theocratic nation named Gilead, The Handmaid's Tale's story was described by Atwood as a dramatization of what would happen if "certain casually-held attitudes about women are taken to their logical conclusions."

The Handmaid's Tale novel instilled real-life patriarchal beliefs in an imagined near-future where a totalitarian regime violently restricted women's agency.

While some aspects are voluntarily taken to the extremes, women's agency is