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Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller on 'Handmaid's Tale'

The author and showrunner had a big issue to tackle in adapting Gilead for modern-day TV: race.
Margaret Atwood on the set of 'The Handmaid's Tale' while filming a cameo for Season 1.
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For 33 years, readers of The Handmaid’s Tale reached the end of the book and thought, What happens next? Now, thanks to Bruce Miller, there’s an answer. He is the executive producer of the critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 dystopian novel, which returned to Hulu on April 25. The first two episodes of second season picked up where the novel and the Season 1 finale left off: Offred (played by Elisabeth Moss) getting into a van that will either take her, as Atwood wrote, “into the darkness within; or else the light.”

And so to Miller’s task: extending the author’s tale beyond the pages of her novel, much as the writers of did with Tom Perrotta’s book. Rather than

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