"Written shortly after Ronald Reagan won the US presidency in 1980, Atwood's novel imagined a future in which the extreme religious right established a totalitarian regime in the aftermath of a civil war in America, amid plummeting worldwide fertility rates."

#YasmineJeffery, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/tv/didn-t-finish-watching-the-handmaid-s-tale-here-s-why-people-stopped-watching

#TV#SciFi #dystopia#TheHandmaidsTale

"Some of what you're thinking about Ghormans, at this very moment, exists because we put it there."

"Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the Ghor? Oh, we all feel it, what is that?"

"Last year, when the shipping lanes had to be shut down, how hard would it have been to simply allow the Imperial inspections that most other planets welcome?"

Dee Shambo, Nisus Osar, Ministry of Enlightenment, Andor, s02e01

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