Brooks, Katherine (May 24, 2017). "How 'The Handmaid's Tale' Villains Were Inspired By Trump". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017 . Retrieved June 18, 2017. Giardina, Carolyn (January 8, 2019). " 'A Star Is Born,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Among CAS Sound Mixers Award Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 8, 2019 . Retrieved January 8, 2019. In episode two, when the women assemble for the birth day, Crabtree put them in different shades of blue. “I started playing with different tones of teal in the Wives and also in the Handmaids because if you have cardboard cutouts of people in the same silhouettes, in the same color, it starts to look like a play,” she said. The more powerful women were outfitted in darker teals. “The color has such a poignancy and shadow. And it has such pathos,” she said. “It’s like aged, beautiful, bird’s-eye blue. It’s darkened and withered and spoiled.” Christine Ko as Lily (season 5), a former Martha who is now a leader in the Canada-based resistance movement. [28]

The Handmaid's Tale: Season Four DVD". Blu-ray.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2022 . Retrieved December 26, 2022. a b "The Handmaid's Tale: Season 4". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on April 27, 2021 . Retrieved May 5, 2021.In London, protesters put on the cloak and bonnet to protest against Donald Trump’s visit to the UK and the policies of his administration. a b c Petski, Denise; Andreeva, Nellie (April 29, 2016). "Elisabeth Moss To Star in Drama Series The Handmaid's Tale On Hulu". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017 . Retrieved March 15, 2017. In Washington I’m trying to change the meaning of red to the flip side of it. Anger and love and lust, those are all passionate emotions but you cannot have one without the other.” The Handmaid's Tale: Season Three Blu-ray". Blu-ray.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019 . Retrieved November 17, 2019. A lot of the language that Margaret Atwood uses when talking about the experiences of women in Gilead – her fictional theocratic state – has resonances with the literature of guidance written for anchorites – cultivating fear of what is outside the enclosure, a view of women that reduces them either to walking wombs or temptresses.

The most visually arresting part of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, are the uniforms the Handmaids wear: bright-red dresses capped with stark white bonnets. The Handmaid’s Tale does much of the world-building of this near-future dystopia through its costume design. In this new totalitarian theocracy known as Gilead, women are divided into different castes according to their usefulness to the state; the uniforms follow suit. The Handmaids wear long red dresses because they are, quite literally, the reproductive organs of the new country. The costume designer Ane Crabtree calls the color “lifeblood.” I am not suggesting that anchorites were like the women in Gilead. But the re-appropriation of the handmaid costumes in contemporary America encourages us to think again about anchorites. Maas, Jennifer (June 22, 2020). " 'Handmaid's Tale' Season 4 Pushed to 2021". The Wrap. Archived from the original on June 23, 2020 . Retrieved June 23, 2020.

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Genevieve Angelson as Alanis Wheeler (season 5), an affluent Canadian who idolizes Serena and who is a driving force behind the rise of Gilead in Toronto. [26] Goldberg, Lesley (March 28, 2023). " 'Handmaid's Tale' Showrunner Steps Down to Focus on Sequel 'Testaments' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 18, 2023 . Retrieved April 26, 2023. First introduced in her novel in the form of “some fairytale figure in a red cloak”, it is a uniform – as Atwood’s heroine Offred explains – designed to be understood in terms of violent oppression and the fertility of the handmaids in a largely infertile world. She said: “There’s a great big arc of Serena’s character and that changes very much from the beginning of when she is at her mother’s home to how she is at the very end.

Several protests around the world, especially related to women's rights, have made use of the red handmaid uniforms from the TV series. [120] [121] [122] Awards [ edit ] Andreeva, Nellie (March 15, 2020). " 'The Handmaid's Tale' Also Suspends Production Over Coronavirus". Deadline. Archived from the original on May 1, 2020 . Retrieved May 3, 2020. Stanley, Tim (May 30, 2017). "What The Handmaid's Tale can tell us about Islamic extremism". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017 . Retrieved November 27, 2017. Looking at the literature and visual art associated with anchorites, it seems possible that what looks to us like oppression was in fact experienced as liberation.

Now, this has taken on another meaning as we see June building up to what a potential rebellion could look like in series three. Keishia Taylor is among those who first started wearing the handmaid’s uniform about a year ago during the campaign to overturn Northern Ireland’s abortion law. a b "The Handmaid's Tale: Season 1". Metacritic. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019 . Retrieved April 24, 2017.