The Handmaid's Tale

‘I’m black, I’m gay, I’m a woman. My country hates me!’: actor Samira Wiley on love, confidence and the Handmaid’s Tale
Samira Wiley shot to fame in Orange is the New Black, then confirmed her status in The Handmaid’s Tale. Now she’s at the National Theatre. She talks about the timeliness of her roles – and trusting her wife to kill off her characters
Rebecca Nicholson
11, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘I’ve always been drawn to loners’: Ann Dowd on Aunt Lydia, Mass and playing it mean
From The Handmaid’s Tale to Hereditary, the 65-year-old actor owns malevolence. She talks about her Oscar-tipped role as a school-shooter’s mother in Mass – and why men are more vulnerable than women
Benjamin Lee in New York
26, Nov, 2021 @8:00 AM

From climate crisis to Brexit, alarmists have been proved right. It’s time to start listening | Arwa Mahdawi
There have been plenty of warnings about environmental catastrophe, food shortages and the erosion of reproductive rights in the US. After the horrors of the last week, it is more urgent than ever to heed them, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
Arwa Mahdawi
08, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM

The Handmaid’s Tale: will the TV hit break its cycle of cruelty?
Season four of the drama based on Margaret Atwood’s novel has seen Elisabeth Moss’s June in near-constant peril. However, it seems her latent rage could be the thing that sets her free
Rebecca Nicholson
22, Aug, 2021 @12:00 PM

The week in TV: The Handmaid’s Tale; Diana; Philly DA: Breaking the Law; Feel Good
Elisabeth Moss’s June and co don’t need Trump to still pack a punch
Barbara Ellen
27, Jun, 2021 @8:30 AM

The Handmaid’s Tale season four review – hope at last in the most harrowing show on TV
Elisabeth Moss has always made this impressive if horrifying TV. But as the new series turns June into queen of the rebels, it has a shot of new life
Rebecca Nicholson
20, Jun, 2021 @9:10 PM

TV tonight: The Handmaid’s Tale returns
Elizabeth Moss reprises her role in the Margaret Atwood adaptation. Plus: Stanley Tucci heads to the home of pizza in his new series. Here’s what to watch this evening
Ammar Kalia, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall, Hannah J Davies and Simon Wardell
20, Jun, 2021 @5:00 AM

To the Maxxx: The Handmaid's Tale star O-T Fagbenle on his gloriously daft new comedy
The versatile British actor on subverting stereotypes, his loud musical family, and flirting with Scarlett Johansson in a new Marvel film
Gabriel Tate
24, Mar, 2020 @9:00 AM

Elisabeth Moss: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale hasn’t taken a toll, it has helped me’
The Handmaid’s Tale star on doing her own stunts in The Invisible Man, the symbolic power of Offred’s cape – and working with a demanding dog
Michael Hogan
23, Feb, 2020 @9:00 AM

Margaret Atwood: Booker prize-winning author to tour Australia next year
Acclaimed Canadian writer will speak in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth from 16 February
Stephanie Convery
17, Nov, 2019 @7:00 PM

Margaret Atwood: ‘For a long time we were moving away from Gilead. Then we started going back towards it’
The bestselling author of The Testaments talks about her unusual upbringing and why it was time to revisit the dystopia of The Handmaid’s Tale
Lisa Allardice
20, Sep, 2019 @12:00 PM

The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say
Kate Abbott, Hannah J Davies, Gwilym Mumford, Phil Harrison and Jack Seale
16, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM
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