For creator and showrunner Bruce Miller, the cracks have been evident for at least a few seasons, as repetitions and redundancies were magnified by the arduous nature of a grueling narrative. But as I point out, some people’s dystopia is other people’s utopia, and vice versa.‘Yellowjackets’ Episode 6 Enforces a Grueling Reality Checkīut five years and 54 episodes later, both the series and its star are hitting their limits. It’s a society which we find less preferable than the one we’re living in, and utopian is one in which we assume that things will be better than the one we’re living in. You don’t mind your work being labelled dystopian, though. So what kind am I? Because I’m interested in fairness, I’m of an egalitarian kind, in which equal means equal, it doesn’t mean superior. Similarly with feminists, who are frequently denouncing one another.
You have to ask, what kind of feminism are you talking about? Like if someone asks you, are you a Christian, what kind of Christian? Are you someone who dances with snakes, do I think the Pope is infallible, what are we talking about here? Where are we on the spectrum, because there’s a lot of varieties. I’m uncomfortable with the label if the other person won’t define it. I wonder how you feel about being held up as a feminist icon. In the past, you’ve rejected the feminist label, yet so many readers and critics see feminist ideas in your work. Forcing women to have babies, it happens in the Trojan War, for heaven’s sake. Religious cults subordinating women was being talked about. The rise of white supremacy, that layer has never gone away, it’s always been there, but somebody opened a door. And all of the things that are now such topics of conversation and such topics of agony, they were all being talked about then. I also went back through my clippings file, because in those days, there was no internet, so we clipped things out of newspapers. But it’s not a chief concern of mine.ĭid you reread The Handmaid’s Tale before you wrote The Testaments? What struck you about it? Will this ruin my future, my literary reputation? If I were 35, you would be absolutely right to ask that question. Were you nervous about meeting fans’s expectations? With a work that’s as beloved as The Handmaid’s Tale, you face enormous pressure to produce a satisfying sequel. It really is what I told you at first: how do totalitarianisms fall apart. I can see why you might think that, but no, not really.
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