The Handmaid s Tale tireless cycle of torture Image via Screengrab.
SalonMay 01, 2021
Since its second season I ve likened The Handmaid s Tale to another serialized alternate history depicting a world upended by a beastly totalitarian regime.
In that other show, as in Handmaid s, powerful oppressors lord over those they deem lesser and press humans into slave labor. A few of the bravest attempt to escape bondage time and again only to fail and be imprisoned once more.
I m alluding to the TV adaptation of Planet of the Apes, a flop that starred Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper and James Naughton.
Most people never knew a small screen Planet of the Apes spinoff existed because it scraped by on CBS from September to December in 1974. But its relevance isn t in the fact that it lived but why it died.
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