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For Your Consideration: If the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t bad enough, here are 3 more dystopian TV shows to worry we're slipping towards
After The Handmaid's Tale, we have fascist regimes, pandemic destruction, and a smorgasbord of existential terror awaiting in shows like Years and Years, Station Eleven, and The Man in the High Castle
Part of the uncomfortable appeal of the high concept behind The Handmaid’s Tale — which returned for its final season on Hulu April 8 — is how short the distance between our everyday reality and the dystopian terrors of the show is… and, depressingly, seemingly getting shorter every single day. The feeling of “there, but for the grace of God” is a significant part of such politically- and socially-charged dystopian sci-fi as Margaret Atwood’s feminist thriller, but the show isn’t alone in conjuring up such worryingly realistic horror shows. Knowing that the end of The Handsmaid’s Tale is nigh, might be suggest some other near-reality dystopias? For your consideration, dear readers: more ways the world go get even worse for you to be compelled to watch.
This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly, there’s
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