When Bruce Miller began work on a TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale, the primaries for the 2016 presidential election still hadn’t happened.
She sees episodes, and so she feels the same way, I think – that it’s a good extrapolation of her world.
I think there’s a little bit of this story that you can see in your political world.
And there are some things from the book that have fascinated the writers room ever since we sat down.