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The Handmaid's Tale is a TV series based on a novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It is set in the near future, in the land of Gilead , a dystopian totalitarian state which replaced the United States. Gilead is plague with environmental destruction and is facing rapidly declining birth rate . Most people are infertile, most pregnancies end up terminated halfway through, and many babies are born dead or deformed. In an effort to repopulate the society, fertile women are forced to take on the role of 'handmaids' , and sent off to elite couples to bear children for them. Every month during ovulation period, handmaids must take part in The Ritual, where they have sex with (READ: get raped by) their master while laying between the legs of their mistress. Handmaids during one of their shopping trips to run errands for their assigned families. The Handmaid's Tale is haunting, and it was personally upsetting to watch it as a woman. The idea of Gilead is ev

I'm going to get straight into it; despite how critically-acclaimed The Shape of Water is, the film has mostly been a disappointment to me. This review contains light spoilers. The Shape of Water is essentially about two individuals who view each other as complete individuals and find solace in each other. Elisa (the main protagonist) is a mute woman who befriends a captured humanoid amphibian man at her workplace, a high-security government laboratory. The humanoid amphibian man, not understanding that Elisa is mute, sees her as any other individual, and not one with a disability. They communicate through sign language, eventually falls in love with each other, and Elisa devises a plan to help him escape. *** Let us first start with the things I liked about this film. Clearly, the visuals and Sally Hawkins' performance are highly commendable. The Shape of Water has a peculiar vibe unique to itself due to the incorporation of classical music into somewhat of a