The Handmaid’s Tale: From Script to Screen S2 Episode 9 “Smart Power“ • A Hulu Original

Worlds collide as Nick (Max Minghella) seeks out Luke (O-T Fagbenle) in a bar in Little America to relay news of June (Elisabeth Moss). WATCH THE HANDMAID’S TALE ABOUT THE HANDMAID’S TALE Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values’. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive an