TY - ADVS AU - Miller,Bruce AU - Moss,Elisabeth AU - Strahovski,Yvonne AU - Finnes,Joseph AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The handmaid's tale U1 - 791.4572 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Moore Park, NSW PB - Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Atwood, Margaret, KW - Dystopian plays KW - Theocracy KW - Drama KW - Misogyny KW - Pregnancy KW - Social aspects KW - Infertility KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Television programs KW - United States KW - Science fiction television programs KW - lcgft KW - Television adaptations KW - Dystopian television programs KW - Fiction television programs KW - Television series KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Catalogued from container; Twentieth Century Fox : 84160SD; Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel; Originally produced in the United States and broadcast on television during 2017; Includes all 10 episodes from the first season; Special features : script to screen: the salvaging ; hope in Gilead; Created by Bruce Miller; Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O. T. Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley; Censorship classification : MA 15+ N2 - A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred ER -