The long-awaited third season of The Handmaid’s Tale is coming soon to Hulu, which recently fell a chilling brand-new teaser trailer that invites America to “wake up.” Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling fiction, The Handmaid’s Tale left supporters hanging( and a little baffled) following the conclusion of season two. The series has already covered most of the book, and now supporters( and readers) don’t know what’s coming next, except for the promise of a dour and vengeful third season — just when we thought it couldn’t get any darker! With that lastly on the way, we’ve drawn up a list of which points from the book were hindered for the punch succession, and what major changes were established.( Spoiler notifies ahead !)

10 SAME: CENTRAL THEMES

In countless rooms, The Handmaid’s Tale serial status Margaret Atwood’s dystopia; the central the main theme of feminism versus patriarchy, loss of name, freedom of hand-picked, and belief are foremost in both the book and modern-day TV adaptation.

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In a society where birthrate is in a rapid lessen, the Republic of Gilead is an frightful plaza for a handmaid, or any woman truly. The totalitarian regime is brutally patriarchal to the station where handmaids–fertile women who, in the eyes of Gilead, have flouted a social constitution or dedicated a ‘gender crime’–are forced to assist wealthy duets in procreation. A Handmaid’s survival are dependent upon her they are able to conceive a child with her Commander and conformity for the purposes of the Gilead regime.

9 SAME: THE HANDMAIDS

Early on in the line, The Handmaid’s Tale establishes us to Margaret Atwood’s exponent, Offred, whose real refer is June Osborne( giving full play to Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss ). Atwood’s books would have recognized June’s best friend Moira and their lists of various other women who met June at the Red Center to be trained as a handmaid( Emily, Janine, Alma, and Dolores ).

Like the tale, handmaids are stripped of their identities; their individual liberties, sexual orientations, and even their honours. By Gilead Law, handmaids must adopt the names of their respective Commander, each predating with ‘Of’ to reflect possession. June if Offred( Of-Frederick Waterford ), Emily is Ofglen( Of-Glen Cooper ), and so forth.

8 SAME: JUNE AND NICK

It’s come as no surprise to Atwood’s readers that June and private households Guardian, Nick, would begin a secret affair in the show.

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Serena Joy–a rather complicated courage, and bride of Commander Waterford–defies the Gilead system by requesting that June sleep with the Commander’s chauffeur since she fears her husband is infertile. With their evident chemistry in the depict, June and Nick( Max Minghella) gradually develop strong feelings for each other and continues its late-night trysts. Though the occasion is ongoing in the novel, Nick’s true feelings about June are sketchy and unclear.

7 SAME: JUNE’S PREGNANCY

As their relationship progresses, June eventually precipitates pregnant with Nick’s inferred child. Like the book, June never knows for sure that the child belongs to Nick, but payed Commander Waterford’s theorized infertility and countless endeavors at procreation with June before the affair, we expect Nick is the father. The Hulu series makes it a stair further in season two, where June eventually contributes birth to a baby girl in a remote property by herself, whom she initially names after her feminist mother, Holly. Like the romance, June’s mother exists through a series of flashbacks, though she’s to have a appoint exclusively in the show.

6 SAME: THE ESCAPE

Towards the end of the novel, Nick–who is also an ‘Eye’ privately working for the Gilead police–organizes a supposed escape for June with Gilead’s secret defiance radical, Mayday. Despite June’s reluctance, she’s out of options and is escorted by two Sees into a black van, intent the tale on a major cliffhanger.

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We trust Nick a little more in the show since his feelings for June are clearer, and so when he tells her to trust him, she does. As June enrols the van in the season one climax, she recites the narrator’s final words in voiceover, “And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”

5 CHANGE: THE SETTING

The dystopian story by Margaret Atwood–who recently corroborated she’s bracing a literary sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale–was published in 1985 and set in a near-future America, with an epilogue that currently exists in 2195.

The Hulu series, however, is stated in present-day( thanks to casual invokes to Uber and Tinder ). In the days before Gilead, June and her best friend Moira are gradually divested of their individual rights, obligating clear that Atwood’s speculative story could be what’s yet to come, or worse, what’s progress in some countries right now.

Several aspects of the novel have also been updated to reflect current issues and themes. In the book, Gilead is a white supremacist person, whereas the line enclose Gilead as a ‘post-racial’ society that never considers race when dealing with Handmaids, or any lover or gal of hue. Similarly, characters in the line relate as LGBTQ — though are penalise for this under Gilead Law.

4 CHANGE: List REVEAL

In the romance, Offred’s real figure is never showed, though when she firstly arrives at the Red Center to be trained as a handmaid, she and several other women “exchanged lists from couch to bed: Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June.”

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June is the only appoints within that roll that is not is connected to any other reputation in the book , nor brought up again, leading readers to believe this is Offred’s real figure. Though Atwood has stated this was not her intention, books are “welcome to it.” In the succession, however, Offred is given a name, probably for practical purposes, when she reveals at the close of the first occurrence: “My word is June Osborne.”

3 CHANGE: OFGLEN IS ALIVE

In the novel, Ofglen is a handmaid and secretly one of the purposes of Gilead’s underground resistance, Mayday. Towards the end of the book, Ofglen blows her handle and commits suicide in order to not face persecution or divulge their lists of her fellow compatriots.

In the serial, Ofglen is formerly known as Emily( Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel) and is blamed Offred/ June as a store collaborator. Though June is first leery of her, thanks to Emily’s dutiful-handmaid carry-on, the two become pals and learn that neither are genuine adherents in the Gilead regime.

Emily then discloses to June she is a member of the Mayday movement, but instead of blowing her move, Emily is caught having an affair with her household Martha( a servant) and forced to watch her execution. Though Emily is penalise, she is kept alive, presumably because of her birthrate, but eventually escapes Gilead in the second season finale.

2 CHANGE: LUKE IS ALIVE

In the days before Gilead, Offred had an occasion with a married man called Luke, who subsequently became her husband( the couple had a daughter together ). In an attempted flee across national borders into Canada, the family were caught by Protector and separated. Since the fib is told from Offred’s perspective, readers can only ruminate what happened to Luke, who is presumed dead and exists only as a reminiscence in the novel.

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In the streak, Luke( O. T. Fagbenle) shares a biracial daughter with Offred/ June, announced Hannah — are contained in the book as Caucasian and having blonde hair. Unlike the story, Hulu’s version shows us what happens to Luke after he is captured. As it turns out, Luke constituted it to Canada and is largely alive, protesting against the Gilead regime and maintaining tabs on his wife.

1 CHANGE: NICK’S BACKSTORY

In the book, Nick lives in the Waterford’s household as a Guardian/ Chauffeur. Offred believes he is an Eye, which is confirmed towards the end of the novel. Not much is known about Nick’s life prior to Gilead, or after.

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In the serial, Nick still remains a bit of a puzzle at first, though is given a last name( Blaine) and backstory to include more depth to his reputation. We learn that Nick is from Michigan and, after being unable to find work, was humbly banked into the Lads of Jacob–the Christian fundamentalist group that made over the country–and eventually got a job as an Eye to spy on Commander Waterford after their first handmaid killed himself. Seemingly, Nick was living a fairly mundane life until he convened June.

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