Have you ever read the book? Even if not, it doesn’t need to end well, I think. I think story is perfectly set up to show that things don’t well a lot of the times. (book spoiler in black below!) I’m actually really curious how this season or next season ends. Will they take Atwood’s approach of throwing us several hundred years into the future and having a conference on Gilead trying to figure out who Ofred was Second, as far as not explaining how it happened, Ofred does give some insight around episode two. She talks about how it began by blaming events on terrorists which led to a suspension of the Constitution and freedoms under the guise of “protection” and how Congress was eventually slaughtered. And then finally Gilead (Ofred’s current home which is the former East Coast of America) was born out of these events, a theocratic military dictatorship. Third, as far as realism…I’m not trying to open this to a political debate but given the current American situation, American President, and certain executive orders, ideologies…well. I can easily see the threads of a Handmaid’s Tale scenario coming about *now* more than any time in the past.
I would agree that the show doesn’t have to end well. It just feels more pointless to me that way. I have watched the first three episodes and seen some of the explanation to what happen. I just find it extremely unrealistic, especially based on what is going on in the United States right now. I am quite certain people aren’t sitting in a corner just letting things happen. There are constant protests. The park service. The judges stepping in on those executive orders.
Though this is a different situation in the show, in that, something catastrophic has happened. People aren’t able to have babies anymore which is world ending. I just think the ritualistic bizarre thing that is happening here is not what would happen. Descending into chaos, maybe, but not this. Violence, sure, but this. I just don’t know.
I think people are trying to equate this to current things going on in the US, but people not wanting tax payer money to fund an organization that does abortions because they believe that is wrong, seems a long way from ritualized sexual slavery. Maybe it is because i am from Ohio and i know people that voted for Bush and for Clinton and for Obama and for Trump and that doesn’t seem weird to me. Even if i may disagree completely with who they voted for.
That not allowing one group to have control for too long is more of the game then all of these social issues. I don’t know. There have only been three episodes and i have enjoyed them for what they were.