The Handmaid's Tale

About The Handmaid's Tale

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

The Handmaid's Tale is an action-adventure, science fiction, and fantasy series made for Hulu. It ran for 6 seasons and 66 episodes between April 2017 and May 2025. That is around 11 episodes a season.

Elisabeth Moss leads the cast as June Osborne, Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford, and Samira Wiley as Moira Strand. The series began as a novel.

Shelv files it under teacher, rape, aggressive, and slavery. In the United States it streams on Hulu.

Goblin Slayer, The Testaments, and Big Little Lies make useful companions to The Handmaid's Tale, all filed under religion and torture. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 3,484 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.