NZ Herald – Editorial: Gloriavale dissent and defence echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale

NZ Herald – Editorial: Gloriavale dissent and defence echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale

NZ Herald – 4/09/2022

For viewers of the screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, the comparisons are inevitable.

To start with, women of Gloriavale wear headscarves and apparel resembling the characters of the fictional Netflix series in all-but colour – the television cast in gaudy red and our West Coast-based communers in more sedate eggshell and navy blues.

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