I watched the first episode of this shit and god damn this is awful...

>I haven't read the book either, but some shit must have gone down considering the flyover states are turned into a radioactive wasteland.
There's never an explanation given, I'm assuming it's just because the book was written in 1985 and nuclear war was the big thing everybody was worried about, so there's just this big spooky radioactive zone for no reason.

Max Minghella is relentlessly handsome.

it's feminist propaganda. women are always the victims and men are evil blah blah blah destroy the white race

I was raised Catholic, left the church and had some family bickering for a while but that was it, Scientology is a legit powerful cult that can end your career and make you stay away from your family forever if you piss them off or try to leave their "church", I can't even imagine growing up in a cult like that.

Men are victims in the story too, even the powerful army guy, once he starts stepping out of line and second-guessing the cult. It's not really feminist, it's more about fascism and state-mandated religious fundamentalism - that happens to involve a lot of rape.

What I don't understand is that it seems like a nod to if Sharia Law were the norm and practiced in America. Or at least that was my takeaway after seeing 2.5 episodes, but if I mention the similarities towards that shows perception of how women would be mistreated and how gays would be executed if Sharia Law were happening, then the fans of this show cry wacist and don't want any part of that conversation

>I gave up around season 3
I enjoyed season 1 and stopped watching halfway through season 2. They ran out of source material and just started slapping together a bunch of nonsense, because for some reason these streaming platform original series can only be good for one or at most two seasons.

Maybe it's her indirect way of speaking up against scientology and convince others to stay away from cults, because she's ridden with guilt but too scared to speak up against them openly?

Didn't the author write something about how the time before Gilead had tons of rampant pollution and some kind of mumps-like virus that caused infertility? The toxic waste was just from the country dumping shit everywhere, which then also caused everybody to become sterile? Been a while since I read it, too lazy too look it up.

Her face is deformed? I just thought she was really nordic looking. Strong masculine, hardy face; strong jaw.