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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