Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale

The new season is unrelentingly bleak – gone is Atwood’s astute social commentary, turning the audience into rubberneckers peering at the carnageWe are all, when push comes to shove, just waiting for death. Here we are, hurtling through space on a disintegrating planet, presided over by maniacs, hunkered down in front of the TV with our loved ones, hoping for the odd moment of levity before the end comes. What are we given by way of a salve? The Handmaid’s Tale, that’s wh