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The Handmaid's Tale

Hulu has become a serious contender in the streaming industry thanks in part to its highly lauded adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. The Handmaid's Tale follows the life of Offred (or June, as she is actually named.) June is kidnapped and forced to become a child-bearer for the Waterford family in the fundamentalist republic of Gilead.

The first season roughly ends where Atwood's literary masterpiece concludes — with a little bit more dramatic license, of course. In the show, we know for sure that the protagonist is pregnant. The second season explores what happens after guards take June into a mysterious black van. It also ventures into her past and her pregnancy, as well as life in the Colonies, a toxic wasteland.