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• Actor Allusion:
  • Moira at Jezebel'south is going by the name "Ruby". Cherry-red is the proper name of Daisy's true cat in Girl, Interrupted, whom Moss' character adopts at the end of the film.
  • Commander Winslow's wife Olivia shares a first proper noun with Detective Stabler's partner from Law & Club: Special Victims Unit of measurement.
• California Doubling: The story is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but filmed in Toronto. In the scene of the pre-Gilead protest, the demonstrators march by the distinctive Toronto Metropolis Hall.
• Dawson Casting: 20-yr-quondam Sydney Sweeney plays 15-twelvemonth-old Eden. ^notation More than probable deliberate since in that location'southward a sexual activity scene featuring the underaged Eden.
• Directed by Cast Member: Elisabeth Moss directed "The Crossing", "Testimony", and "Progress".
• Enforced Method Interim: Sam Jaeger, who plays Marker Tuello, did this to himself. When preparing for the role, he only watched episodes of the series that put Serena Joy Waterford in a good light. As Jaeger himself put information technology, Marker Tuello is supposed to be attracted to Serena Joy's expert side. Prior to the scene where Mark arrests Serena, he would sentinel all of the episodes with Serena Joy along with all the abuses she heaped on June, and his disgust in Serena's character is obvious when Mark proceeds to make the arrest.
• Fake American: Brits Joseph Fiennes, Max Minghella and O. T. Fagbenle, Australian Yvonne Strahovski and Canadian Amanda Brugel all play Americans.
• I Knew Information technology!: Ever since the book was published, fans had speculated that i of the names in the list from the first chapter was Offred's real name, with June the about popular guess. The series went with this, with the implicit blessing of Margaret Atwood.
• Irony every bit She Is Cast:
  • Serena Joy's is desperate to finally have a babe via Handmaid, since she'southward been rendered incapable of having children via being shot. Yvonne Strahovski revealed she was pregnant some time earlier the second season aired.
  • Elisa Bauman has a small role in season 2 as Serena Joy's assistant, who seems to agree with her ethics and praises her work. Bauman herself is an openly bisexual feminist — i.e., the exact sort of person Serena Joy is looking to eliminate.
  • Similarly, Chris Meloni, an open up feminist and LGBTQ ally, being cast as Loftier Commander Winslow, 1 of the chief architects of a society responsible for enslaving women as chattel and murdering countless LGBTQ people.
• Killer App: The TV serial has finally given Hulu an original series that has garnered attention from critics similar to Netflix's original programming. Information technology concluded upwards giving Hulu the honor of existence the commencement streaming service to get a Best Serial Emmy.
• Overtook the Manga: Retroactively subverted: the serial overtook the novel's cryptic ending with the 2d flavor until Margaret Atwood released The Testaments, meaning the series is now just filling the gap betwixt books until they adapt the second one.
• Referenced by...:
  • Saturday Nighttime Alive parodies the series with Handmaids in The City
  • Funny Or Die presents a Gender Flip parody called The Handman's Tale.
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Halloween Episode has a ready of men dressed in the handmaids' iconic red costumes. It'south part of the precinct'southward traditional heist.
  • Emma.'s first trailer has Mrs Goddard's pupils walking at a brisk footstep dressed in long red coats and light-coloured bonnets. They look a lot similar the oppressed handmaids from Hulu's series.
• Shown Their Work: Offred's presumed real name of June is the last word in the outset chapter of the book, in which future Handmaids are exchanging names.
• Troubled Product: The scenes at the Colonies in Flavor 2 were filmed in very common cold and rainy Canadian weather, putting the actors in genuine danger of hypothermia. Their costumes had to be specially designed to keep them warm without really looking like they were to sell the women'due south conditions.
• Voice-Only Cameo: Oprah Winfrey voices the host of Radio Free America that is briefly heard.
• The Wiki Rule: The Handmaid'due south Tale Wiki - covers both the volume and the series.

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