Top 10 Differences Between The Handmaid's Tale Book & TV Show
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Date: 2023-11-20
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Marilyn
I am happy to hear you say you are a Canadian. I am tooLondon, Ontario. I absolutely LOVE the scenes done in Toronto
, as I bet every Canadian does too. I am writing this comment on July17, 2022 when the USA is seeing Womens Rights being striped away. CANCELLED. Now when I watch the show I am seeing it as real life, not just a fictional book. Our National Treasure, Margaret Atwood must be psychic! I loved the Handmaids Tale Movie done in 1990. I even bought the the DVD recently. In the 90s I thought it was fiction, but nowoh god in Heaven, its coming true. Even though I am Canadian, I fear for women all over the world. I think its because Women are stronger now, old men are worrying we may replace them. And so we should. Liz Cheney said recentlymen are running the world and its not going all that well
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I am happy to hear you say you are a Canadian. I am tooLondon, Ontario. I absolutely LOVE the scenes done in Toronto
, as I bet every Canadian does too. I am writing this comment on July17, 2022 when the USA is seeing Womens Rights being striped away. CANCELLED. Now when I watch the show I am seeing it as real life, not just a fictional book. Our National Treasure, Margaret Atwood must be psychic! I loved the Handmaids Tale Movie done in 1990. I even bought the the DVD recently. In the 90s I thought it was fiction, but nowoh god in Heaven, its coming true. Even though I am Canadian, I fear for women all over the world. I think its because Women are stronger now, old men are worrying we may replace them. And so we should. Liz Cheney said recentlymen are running the world and its not going all that well
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Patricia
Serena does not look like she past the age of being able to have babies! she looks as young as June some people thought it was the gunshot that cause her to be infertile or cause her problems with fertility. but we later find out that Serena can have a baby maybe being able to have a child now she will know what its like to feel when the baby kicks and Sabrina will feel what June felt like when she couldnt save Hanna. maybe Serena will feel compassion towards June. and she will owe June because that was Junes request when asked to talk to Luke to give Serena a chance to hold baby Nicole one last time. that Serena would owe her! And maybe Serena and Fred will help save Hannah from Gilead and return her to June.
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Serena does not look like she past the age of being able to have babies! she looks as young as June some people thought it was the gunshot that cause her to be infertile or cause her problems with fertility. but we later find out that Serena can have a baby maybe being able to have a child now she will know what its like to feel when the baby kicks and Sabrina will feel what June felt like when she couldnt save Hanna. maybe Serena will feel compassion towards June. and she will owe June because that was Junes request when asked to talk to Luke to give Serena a chance to hold baby Nicole one last time. that Serena would owe her! And maybe Serena and Fred will help save Hannah from Gilead and return her to June.
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TheRubinator13
I think they changed the first salvaging because they knew what they were going to do for Fred's death. How they killed him in the woods was basically a mirror image of the first salvaging.
The same song plays during both and the women circle around the man while June gives the first kick
It was actually very beautifully done
Edit: lol I guess thats the beauty of seeing this video after finishing season 4 I didn't see how old this video was when I wrote the comment
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I think they changed the first salvaging because they knew what they were going to do for Fred's death. How they killed him in the woods was basically a mirror image of the first salvaging.
The same song plays during both and the women circle around the man while June gives the first kick
It was actually very beautifully done
Edit: lol I guess thats the beauty of seeing this video after finishing season 4 I didn't see how old this video was when I wrote the comment
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ssp
the TV show is way better. there are some changes. Being able to flesh out the past was amazing. and the cinematography is INCREDIBLE. the symbolism, everything, ugh, just amazing. And the music!
Serena Joy is a VERY different character. I quite like that she's a fierce, beautiful, intelligent woman in the show.
if you've read the latest one, The Testaments, it doesn't at all match the TV show. Atwood had that choice, it's very strange.
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the TV show is way better. there are some changes. Being able to flesh out the past was amazing. and the cinematography is INCREDIBLE. the symbolism, everything, ugh, just amazing. And the music!
Serena Joy is a VERY different character. I quite like that she's a fierce, beautiful, intelligent woman in the show.
if you've read the latest one, The Testaments, it doesn't at all match the TV show. Atwood had that choice, it's very strange.
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Dawn
I read the book when it first came out. I think it spoke more immediately to me and my generation. We were just a step away from the lessened rights described in the book. Remember that up until the late 70's a woman could not take out a loan by herself. She had to have a male cosigner, either her husband or father. We've come a ways ladies, just not far enough or securely enough. Don't take your rights for granted.
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I read the book when it first came out. I think it spoke more immediately to me and my generation. We were just a step away from the lessened rights described in the book. Remember that up until the late 70's a woman could not take out a loan by herself. She had to have a male cosigner, either her husband or father. We've come a ways ladies, just not far enough or securely enough. Don't take your rights for granted.
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Sam
I feel like this video does a great injustice to the OG book. The book showed a far more racist Gilead that sent black people to reservations in the Dakotas to live separately and in worse conditions than white people. This video simply mentions gilead is more diverse. I feel like downplaying all of this is basically just whitewashing the book, or just straight up ignoring racism.
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I feel like this video does a great injustice to the OG book. The book showed a far more racist Gilead that sent black people to reservations in the Dakotas to live separately and in worse conditions than white people. This video simply mentions gilead is more diverse. I feel like downplaying all of this is basically just whitewashing the book, or just straight up ignoring racism.
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Ivon
A friend of mine just got me into the show and I bought the book on audible! I am OBSESSED. It is disturbing on how real this could be. SCARY. Great book. I love how the show has not distorted the book too much and the changes were minors but the extensions. are amazing, and go really well with the book. This book and show has made me REALLY appreciative of my freedoms.
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A friend of mine just got me into the show and I bought the book on audible! I am OBSESSED. It is disturbing on how real this could be. SCARY. Great book. I love how the show has not distorted the book too much and the changes were minors but the extensions. are amazing, and go really well with the book. This book and show has made me REALLY appreciative of my freedoms.
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Kris
The story wouldn't be quite as terrifying if it wasn't happening in real time in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia!
To hear Christian Dominion supporters howling for the same thing to occur in America is chilling. There is no place for anyone's pet deity in the US government and the making of laws everyone -- regardless of religion -- is expected to follow.
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The story wouldn't be quite as terrifying if it wasn't happening in real time in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia!
To hear Christian Dominion supporters howling for the same thing to occur in America is chilling. There is no place for anyone's pet deity in the US government and the making of laws everyone -- regardless of religion -- is expected to follow.
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carolyn
read the book almost 20 years ago. I had forgotten what June's character was like. Love love the series. They have done a fantastic job. Now listening to the audiobook read by Lizzie Moss herself, which merges both the book and show so beautifully together.
ps. the film pales in comparison. I think i watched it before i read the book?
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read the book almost 20 years ago. I had forgotten what June's character was like. Love love the series. They have done a fantastic job. Now listening to the audiobook read by Lizzie Moss herself, which merges both the book and show so beautifully together.
ps. the film pales in comparison. I think i watched it before i read the book?
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Julz
I like how the series shows other characters lives and perspectives. There was also insight into a lead up of how Gilead came to be in place of America basically. In the book nothing like that happens to Janine but as horrific as Janine and Emily's punishments are and lives now it's good we get to see what happens to them aswell as June
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I like how the series shows other characters lives and perspectives. There was also insight into a lead up of how Gilead came to be in place of America basically. In the book nothing like that happens to Janine but as horrific as Janine and Emily's punishments are and lives now it's good we get to see what happens to them aswell as June
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fanjoy
I read the book years ago, long before the movie or the series came out. I recently re-read it. One thing I like about the series is that it goes further than the book does, the ending of the book leaves you hanging, you never really find out what happens to June although we do know the Gilead regime ended at some point.
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I read the book years ago, long before the movie or the series came out. I recently re-read it. One thing I like about the series is that it goes further than the book does, the ending of the book leaves you hanging, you never really find out what happens to June although we do know the Gilead regime ended at some point.
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fanjoy
I read the book for the first time in the early 90s when the original movie came out. I then discovered Orix & Crake by Atwood, it is a trilogy and is more relevant today than it ever was. Hulu has recently acquired the rights to this story, I have been waiting for a screen adaptation for many years.
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I read the book for the first time in the early 90s when the original movie came out. I then discovered Orix & Crake by Atwood, it is a trilogy and is more relevant today than it ever was. Hulu has recently acquired the rights to this story, I have been waiting for a screen adaptation for many years.
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1890
Ordered the book at People's Bookstore in 1985 when I was 15 years old. remember bringing it home and reading it on the old, mossy tree that had fell over our waterfall.
All these years later, watching the U. S. start the insidious pathway, of bringing this horrible world more into view.
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Ordered the book at People's Bookstore in 1985 when I was 15 years old. remember bringing it home and reading it on the old, mossy tree that had fell over our waterfall.
All these years later, watching the U. S. start the insidious pathway, of bringing this horrible world more into view.
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Dyan
I read the book, but it was years ago. So I might be incorrect about the following.
MAJOR DIFFERENCE, in the book Offred kills the commander.
I think that Offred's husband is executed after the family tried to escape.
At the salvaging, a handmaid is also executed.
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I read the book, but it was years ago. So I might be incorrect about the following.
MAJOR DIFFERENCE, in the book Offred kills the commander.
I think that Offred's husband is executed after the family tried to escape.
At the salvaging, a handmaid is also executed.
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Veronika91
I read both books and liked them a lot. The first season of the show is really near to the first book and it ends with the guardians taking June away. I am waiting to see how they will set the second book, which played 15 years after June escaped form Gilead.
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I read both books and liked them a lot. The first season of the show is really near to the first book and it ends with the guardians taking June away. I am waiting to see how they will set the second book, which played 15 years after June escaped form Gilead.
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Seas
I read the book and didn't really like it. I found it frustrating in its incompleteness, and wished it had a more solid ending; I also saw the film which was okay, but I'm completely hooked on the TV series. Enthralling, if very disturbing.
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I read the book and didn't really like it. I found it frustrating in its incompleteness, and wished it had a more solid ending; I also saw the film which was okay, but I'm completely hooked on the TV series. Enthralling, if very disturbing.
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Zombie
Janine is such a great character in the series. It is problematic that they took her eye for being mouthy and June reaches that level of mouthy in every episode and almost every scene and hasn't even had her fingernails pulled.
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Janine is such a great character in the series. It is problematic that they took her eye for being mouthy and June reaches that level of mouthy in every episode and almost every scene and hasn't even had her fingernails pulled.
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Matt
June's name is revealed on page two of the book, so not sure why you've said this is left to ambiguity. All the other names are mentioned in the same sentence are mentioned other contexts so it's fairly obvious her name is June.
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June's name is revealed on page two of the book, so not sure why you've said this is left to ambiguity. All the other names are mentioned in the same sentence are mentioned other contexts so it's fairly obvious her name is June.
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Jason
The show has done an excellent job of fleshing out the book, which often felt so isolated and in the dark, though the book is still excellent and that's part of why it is. The recent follow up the Testament is also very good.
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The show has done an excellent job of fleshing out the book, which often felt so isolated and in the dark, though the book is still excellent and that's part of why it is. The recent follow up the Testament is also very good.
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Geny
I love the series, I read the book and while I was moving from Az to Texas I listened to the audio book in which Elizabeth Moss (June) was reading it and I loved it. It's a great series but just so realistic it's kind of scary.
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I love the series, I read the book and while I was moving from Az to Texas I listened to the audio book in which Elizabeth Moss (June) was reading it and I loved it. It's a great series but just so realistic it's kind of scary.
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Kathleen
I read the first book and the sequel. In the sequel it turns out that Aunt Lydia was undercover all along working for the resistance. She has all the dirty secrets smuggled out in the end causing the collapse of Gilliad
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I read the first book and the sequel. In the sequel it turns out that Aunt Lydia was undercover all along working for the resistance. She has all the dirty secrets smuggled out in the end causing the collapse of Gilliad
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Hi
i just finished the book but i have to wait to watch the show for another two weeks. So here I am.
so far, i just know, i will probably always prefer nick over luke because of the way their behavior was described
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i just finished the book but i have to wait to watch the show for another two weeks. So here I am.
so far, i just know, i will probably always prefer nick over luke because of the way their behavior was described
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Pablo
Janine was also kind of a douche in the book but very personable in the show. Also, Luke was just kinda there in the book, zero description, but the show made him a total hottie with depth.
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Janine was also kind of a douche in the book but very personable in the show. Also, Luke was just kinda there in the book, zero description, but the show made him a total hottie with depth.
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Sheila
I tried to read the book back in the day but couldnt get into. I wasnt into the future kind of stories. With what is going on now and after seeing this video, I want to watch the series.
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I tried to read the book back in the day but couldnt get into. I wasnt into the future kind of stories. With what is going on now and after seeing this video, I want to watch the series.
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Aline
I wonder if it is as scary for Canadians as it is for those of us who live in the US. I feel like this could really happen in the US (some of it is already happening in some states.
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I wonder if it is as scary for Canadians as it is for those of us who live in the US. I feel like this could really happen in the US (some of it is already happening in some states.
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Spike
The biggest difference is only apparent if one reads the sequel, the Testaments. In that book, Aunt Lydia ROCKS! No spoilers, but. she out Monte-Cristos the Count of Monte-Cristo!
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The biggest difference is only apparent if one reads the sequel, the Testaments. In that book, Aunt Lydia ROCKS! No spoilers, but. she out Monte-Cristos the Count of Monte-Cristo!
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Fidi987
One difference is that in the book, Serena Joy is not her actual name but something June made up or exaggerated from her TV character. The name is mocked there several times.
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One difference is that in the book, Serena Joy is not her actual name but something June made up or exaggerated from her TV character. The name is mocked there several times.
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Truthster
I just got done watching Season 1 again. I cant believe I made it through the first time when it was so hard the second time around. Absolutely horrifying.
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I just got done watching Season 1 again. I cant believe I made it through the first time when it was so hard the second time around. Absolutely horrifying.
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Cynthia
I watched the movie version of the handmaid's tale as a child but I have never read the book I don't think I can watch the show it's to triggering to me
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I watched the movie version of the handmaid's tale as a child but I have never read the book I don't think I can watch the show it's to triggering to me
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Kathleen
Why would Mexico need to trade for hand maids? Im sure if they scoured their own country they could find plenty of fertile women. Doesnt make sense.
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Why would Mexico need to trade for hand maids? Im sure if they scoured their own country they could find plenty of fertile women. Doesnt make sense.
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