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The Handmaid's Tale: Differences Between the Show and Book | Time

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The new Hulu television series The Handmaid’s Tale remains in many ways faithful to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. Both the show and the book tell the story of a society with a declining birthrate that forces fertile women, dubbed “handmaids,” to bear children for wealthy men and their barren wives. But Atwood wrote the book on a typewriter in 1984; much has changed since then, both technologically and socially. And so the show has updated itself to reflect the current times. There are more non-white and gay characters. The main character, June, takes to the streets to participate in women

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