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Podcast: Black Girl Nerds
Episode: 438: BGN Extra - The Handmaid's Tale Recap Podcast (Eps 601 & 602)
Description: In this week's episode we're back with our recaps of The Handmaid's Tale. In its final season, we will recap each and every episode.
Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual...