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The Handmaid's Tale

June 2023

  • Margaret Atwood

    Trump election reframed TV version of The Handmaid’s Tale, says Atwood

    Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election

April 2023

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Succession isn’t bad – but it is overrated

    Arwa Mahdawi
    From the profanity to the shaky cinematography, I have finally had my fill of the hit drama. I’ll say this for the makers though, they do know when to stop, writes Arwa Mahdawi

September 2022

  • Samira Wiley shot for OM

    ‘I’m black, I’m gay, I’m a woman. My country hates me!’: actor Samira Wiley on love, confidence and the Handmaid’s Tale

    Samira Wiley shot to fame in Orange is the New Black, then confirmed her status in The Handmaid’s Tale. Now she’s at the National Theatre. She talks about the timeliness of her roles – and trusting her wife to kill off her characters

January 2022

  • Ann Dowd

    The Q&A
    Ann Dowd: ‘My closest brush with the law? Stealing lamb chops from a Chicago supermarket’

    The Handmaid’s Tale actor on her crush on Clint Eastwood and selling frozen food over the phone

November 2021

  • Ann Dowd Press publicity portrait supplied by PR

    ‘I’ve always been drawn to loners’: Ann Dowd on Aunt Lydia, Mass and playing it mean

    From The Handmaid’s Tale to Hereditary, the 65-year-old actor owns malevolence. She talks about her Oscar-tipped role as a school-shooter’s mother in Mass – and why men are more vulnerable than women

September 2021

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    From climate crisis to Brexit, alarmists have been proved right. It’s time to start listening

    Arwa Mahdawi
    There have been plenty of warnings about environmental catastrophe, food shortages and the erosion of reproductive rights in the US. After the horrors of the last week, it is more urgent than ever to heed them, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

August 2021

  • ‘What was the point in rooting for her, if she would inevitably end up back at the start?’ ... Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale.

    The Handmaid’s Tale: will the TV hit break its cycle of cruelty?

    Season four of the drama based on Margaret Atwood’s novel has seen Elisabeth Moss’s June in near-constant peril. However, it seems her latent rage could be the thing that sets her free

June 2021

  • Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Handmaid’s Tale; Diana; Philly DA: Breaking the Law; Feel Good – review

    Elisabeth Moss’s June and co don’t need Trump to still pack a punch
  • The Handmaid’s Tale.

    TV review
    The Handmaid’s Tale season four review – hope at last in the most harrowing show on TV

    Elisabeth Moss has always made this impressive if horrifying TV. But as the new series turns June into queen of the rebels, it has a shot of new life
  • The Handmaid’s Tale.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: The Handmaid’s Tale returns

    Elizabeth Moss reprises her role in the Margaret Atwood adaptation. Plus: Stanley Tucci heads to the home of pizza in his new series. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2020

  • O-T Fagbenle in Maxxx.

    To the Maxxx: The Handmaid's Tale star O-T Fagbenle on his gloriously daft new comedy

    The versatile British actor on subverting stereotypes, his loud musical family, and flirting with Scarlett Johansson in a new Marvel film

February 2020

  • Elisabeth Moss

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Elisabeth Moss: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale hasn’t taken a toll, it has helped me’

    The Handmaid’s Tale star on doing her own stunts in The Invisible Man, the symbolic power of Offred’s cape – and working with a demanding dog

November 2019

  • The acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood: Booker prize-winning author to tour Australia next year

    Acclaimed Canadian writer will speak in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth from 16 February

September 2019

  • Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood: ‘For a long time we were moving away from Gilead. Then we started going back towards it’

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  • Tom Gauld 14th Sept 2019 TGcartoon583

    Tom Gauld imagines a bumpy launch for The Testaments – cartoon

  • Margaret Atwood

    Book of the week
    The Testaments by Margaret Atwood review – a dazzling follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale

  • 'She's a prophet': handmaids gather for Margaret Atwood's midnight launch of The Testaments

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Capture; A Confession; The Handmaid’s Tale and more

  • The Guardian view on Margaret Atwood and the Booker: a testament to fiction

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