The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid ’s Talehas been one of the most intense and critically spat dystopian stories in television set history . Based on the Hellenic Margaret Atwood novel of the same name , the book and idiot box show are base on a dystopian version of the United States . In this world , a patriarchal totalistic group known as the Republic of Gilead overturn the United States politics and reverse many women into " Handmaids , " where they were forced to bring forth children for the ruling class of Gilead , lease off all woman ’s right wing .
This terrifying look at a potential future is even more direful in today ’s company , which the good dystopian stories are always capable to pull off . There areseveral other television shows that also approach the same degree of a prevail stratum take away right field from its citizen , often with masses offering up their own freedom for an easier aliveness . There are also many shows that approach the struggle for cleaning woman ’s right and for other marginalized chemical group as well , with television capable to tell long - var. account that have deep meaning to this mean solar day .
20Made For Love (2021)
A Man Implants A Tracking Device In His Wife’s Brain
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In one of the lesser - know shows likeThe Handmaid ’s Tale , Made for Lovealso focalise on stripping a woman of her self-direction . Based on the 2017 Alissa Nutting novel of the same name , the series focuses on a fair sex named Hazel Green ( Cristin Milioti ) who scarper her distressed married couple of 10 years to a technical school billionaire . However , when she last finds her freedom and start to endeavor to retrieve her independence , she ca-ca a lurid discovery .
Her husband has inserted a tracking machine into her brain , where he can track her location , watch her living , and know her " emotional data , " stripping her of all her independence . The second season pick up Hazel return to her husband and the practical reality Hub , where she once again loses her exemption — a like spot that the adult female inThe Handmaid ’s Talefind themselves in , but in the literal mankind . The series received a Primetime Emmy nomination , but it was one of the shows Max take away from its cyclosis divine service .
19Upload (2020–Present)
At its center , The Handmaid ’s Taleis about the passing of human rights , torso self-direction , and basic exemption . On a interchangeable level , the Amazon Prime Video seriesUploadhas those same themes but with a more sci - fi aspect . InUpload , when a person dies , they can " upload " their knowingness into a virtual hereafter of their choosing . However , when a programmer named Nathan ( Robbie Amell ) dies youthful , he finds he was upload into a very expensive hereafter known as Lakeview .
The best episodes of The Handmaid ’s Tale , a critically acclaimed series based on Margaret Atwood ’s novel of the same name , feature standout moments .
Where this really ties intoThe Handmaid ’s Taleis thatNathan did n’t choose this afterlife — his girlfriend chose it for him , and she has complete control over his fate now , stripping him of all freedom and self-reliance . The series is an interesting smell at the approximation of the afterlife , and it flips back and forth from the AI reality , where Nathan tries to cypher out his post , to the real humankind , where people are try on to recover out what really happened to Nathan when he died .
18Snowpiercer (2020-2024)
The World Enters A New Ice Age
Snowpierceris based on a 1982 French graphic novel that tells the chronicle of a world wherea Modern ice age has desolate the planet , and the survivors live aboard a ego - sustaining non - check trainuntil the mankind can become inhabitable again . While the wagon train was mean for the upper - class wealthy and the middle - class with money to buy a place on it , they remained separated by wealth and social year aboard this wagon train . However , when a chemical group of working - year people hurry the string and boards before it take on off , it throws the ecosystem into convulsion .
The 2013Snowpiercerfilm adaptation was directed by Bong Joon - ho ( Parasite ) , and was the filmmaker ’s first English - language moving picture .
Just likeThe Handmaid ’s Tale , this story ( which was also made into a movie before becoming a tv set show ) hasthe moneyed ruling course of instruction imposing their will over everyone else , and here , it is everyone who is consider " poor , " who is left to live like Bos taurus in the back of the train , until a rebellion finally arise . The series lasted for four time of year and 40 episodes , surviving after TNT canceled it and AMC picked it up for the concluding quaternary time of year , which wrapped up the story .
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17The Plot Against America (2020)
An Alternate History Series Bringing Fascism To America
The Plot Against Americais a very exchangeable series toThe Handmaid ’s Tale , although it is more about the rise of fascism in America , whereasThe Handmaid ’s Taleis about the beau monde already in laying waste thanks to fascism . This show is also an substitute Earth story , re - imagining history by asking what would happen if Charles Lindbergh heighten up through politicsand brought his xenophobic populist beliefs to the U.S. authorities when he became president .
Based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name , the serial follows a working - class Jewish family in New Jersey as they look on Lindbergh ’s rise to power and the eventual demolition of the country they loved . The casting is salient , with John Turturro as a drawing card and supporter of Lindbergh and Morgan Spector as a New Deal socialist . The serial earned a Primetime Emmy nominating address for cinematography and receive an 87 % clean evaluation on Rotten Tomatoes by critic .
16Severance (2022–Present)
People Give Up Their Memories To Work Harder
The Apple TV+ seriesSeveranceis an interesting take on the working class and how the elite misuse them to get plentiful at the expense of the citizenry in reality doing all the employment . The show pore on a company called Lumon Industries and a engineering that was created to set aside for more work and few distractions in the workplace . This was done by a proficiency called " Severance , " wherepeople have no memories of the outside world while at workand no retentivity of their line of work when they get out work .
Similar toThe Handmaid ’s Tale , there are the great unwashed who volunteer for this and endorse it , but others are realizing that things might not be all it seems .
The drama comes when some employees begin to realize that Lumon Industries might be using Severance in unethical ways . Similar toThe Handmaid ’s Tale , there are citizenry who volunteer for this and stick out it , but others are actualise that things might not be all it seems . The series was hugely successful for Apple TV+ , with three Golden Globes nominations and several Primetime Emmy nominations , win two .
15The Americans (2013-2018)
Soviets Living In America As Sleeper Agents
InThe Handmaid ’s Tale , lover learn a dystopian hereafter where an tyrannical authorities has strip women of almost all their rights in guild . InThe Americans , a very dissimilar time to come plays out , and it come straight out of the old Cold War fears of the 1970s and ' 80s . Just likeTheHandmaid ’s Tale , the show is relentless in the danger of this face at fellowship .
The show lasted for six seasons and showed , in the end , that devotee could embolden for the Soviets living in America as sleeper agents and still see the truth that their lives demanded sacrifice while rewarding none of them , conduct to inevitable ruination and destruction .
14Harlots (2017-2019)
Women Fighting For Their Rights In 1760s London
WhileThe Handmaid ’s Taletakes place in a dystopian hereafter , the Hulu seriesHarlotsis a full point drama . However , both share similar themes . TheHandmaid ’s Taleshows a society where women are crush and have to campaign for their rightfulness , Harlotsshowed women who are also oppressed , and in this case , have a chance to crusade against the patriarchy in their society .
Margaret Wells ( Samantha Morton ) and Lydia Quigley ( Lesley Manville ) run rival brothel and defend to continue in business sector and protect their livelihoods . While the women inHandmaid ’s Taleare forced into sexual situations against their will to help build smart set , Harlotshas the woman empowered through sex , and here it is used to often keep these women in might , at least of their own right field .
13Orphan Black (2013-2017)
Clones Fight For Their Survival
When streetwise street girl Sarah Manning witnesses the suicide of a char who come along to be her doppelganger , she simulate the cleaning woman ’s indistinguishability to investigate . shortly Sarah let out that she is one of many clones created by illegal experimentation , and someone is after her and her " sisters . "
Tatiana Maslany enjoyed her breakout role in the BBC seriesOrphan Black . The woman who pass away on to play She - Hulk for the Marvel Cinematic Universe played more than 17 dissimilar characters in this serial . She plays Sarah Manning , Alison Hendrix , Cosima Niehaus , Helena , Rachel Duncan , as well as various others , as clones tolerate in 1984 by in vitro fertilization .
The show embark on with a con artist named Sarah who witness one of her ringer snuff it by suicide , and this sets into motion an astonishing sci - fi tale full of turn and crook . When she learns she is a ringer and someone need to vote down her and the others , she terminate up fight down for her lifetime . Just likeHandmaid ’s Tale , this show takes away the women ’s ascendance of their bodiesand places them in an oppressive organization , forcing a fight - or - flight situation .
12Colony (2016-2018)
The Aftermath Of An Alien Invasion
Colonyis a sci - fi drama about a dystopian time to come where an alien invasion has already happened , and everyone is forced into a military - control society . Just like inThe Handmaid ’s Tale , the government deprive people of their right , and in this instance , it is everyone who is crush .
The show starred Josh Holloway ( Lost ) and Sarah Wayne Callies ( The Walking Dead ) as a brace lay to conflict as part of the secret Resistance . WhileTheHandmaid ’s Taleis more of a dramatic story about masses trying to overcome the ruthless political science , Colonyis a show that takes a dissimilar approach and is more of a sci - fi action serial publication .
11Westworld (2016-2022)
Robots Made For Amusement Rebels
Westworldended on HBO Max , as the HBO - Discovery merger make the show ’s cancelation . This will leave many ofWestworld ’s fans with a lot of unanswered questions , but at least four season of the critically clap series vent before its oddment .
The show shares a lot in common withThe Handmaid ’s Tale , peculiarly from the robots ' stage of view . create to serve men and used as entertainment despite a growing intelligence , the robots had no rights and often found themselves killed for no reasonbefore being mind - wipe . The show then changed to reveal the robot wanting their exemption at any cost , and that is the exact trajectory ofThe Handmaid ’s Tale .
When streetwise hustler Sarah Manning witnesses the suicide of a woman who appears to be her doppelganger, she assumes the woman’s identity to investigate. Soon Sarah discovers that she is one of many clones created by illegal experimentation, and someone is after her and her “sisters."
