Work · TV series · 2017–2025

The Handmaid's Tale

Bruce Miller, creator, showrunner

Studio: MGM Television
Units: 66 episodes across 6 seasons
imdb: tt5834204

A Hulu drama that adapts Atwood's novel closely across its first season, then continues June Osborne's story for five further seasons of original material, ending with an armed uprising that topples Gilead's rule over Boston and Massachusetts.

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Novel 1985 → TV series 2017–2025 · Direct adaptationThe Handmaid's TaleSeason 1 adapts Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel across ten episodes and ends on the novel's own last image, the narrator led into a black van. Seasons 2 through 6, 56 of the show's 66 episodes, carry June Osborne past that point through a war, an escape and the liberation of a city, none of which any published Atwood text describes.63whole run · editorial

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