Dave Whitla

Odd that people would downvote this brilliantly written and produced series because it portrays people suffering at the hands of a violent and oppressive dystopian society rather than the rainbows and unicorns of contemporary fluff programming. Finally a show that makes us think, awakens our sleeping wariness and subtly challenges us to empathise with the many real women, ironically demonised by many of us, who today remain trapped within the alarmingly similar extant misogynist totalitarian theocracies ruling much of the world. Watch the series, allow yourself to believe how easily this could become your world and then give a thought for those people already living it somewhere. Reviewers who believe the story is anti-Christian have completely missed the point and can't see past the surface. Change extremist Christian to extremist Muslim and move the story to Pakistan or Afghanistan and you have a disturbingly accurate portrayal of reality. People amazed by the original author's creativity need to get out more. The setting of the United States and a religious extremist revolution initiated under the cover of anti-terrorist provisions make this all the more poignant a warning of how plausible this future may be.