The footage also features a woman telling the handmaids, 'You girls will serve the leaders and their barren wives.'
- Feb 4, 2017
AceShowbiz - Hulu has released new promo for its upcoming series "The Handmaid's Tale", based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel of the same name. This is the first time Hulu has showcased an original series in a Super Bowl advertisement.
The video offers glimpses of Offred's (Elisabeth Moss) old life, where her daughter is being taken away from her, and also her new life where she becomes a handmaid who's forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.
"I had another name but it's forbidden now," says Offred in the beginning of the video. The footage also features a woman telling the handmaids, "You girls will serve the leaders and their barren wives."
"We only wanted to make the world better," Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) tells Offred. She then replies bitterly, "Better?" The commander says, "Better never means better for everyone." At the end of the video, Offred says, "My name is Offred and I intend to survive."
"The Handmaid's Tale" chronicles the story of life in dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas and her fellow handmaids - all for one goal, to survive and find her daughter that was taken from her.
"The Handmaid's Tale" premieres on Wednesday, April 26 on Hulu. The upcoming 10-episode series also stars Alexis Bledel, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Max Minghella, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd and O-T Fagbenle.
