![]() The Handmaid's Tale also ignores potential racial conflict in depictions both before and after the coup. When their little girl's school sends her to a hospital with a fever, the nurses interrogate June about her fitness as a mother, but they never even question whether the brown-skinned, curly-haired girl belongs to the blonde woman. For instance, Luke and June's union produces a child they adore and protect, but the fact that their child is biracial is never acknowledged by the show, much less explored. Other flashbacks confirm that Luke and June remain curiously oblivious to the fact that they're in an interracial relationship at all. But God found a way to make you useful." Even when the series shows present-day America, it can only do so in the language of Gilead. In fact, Annie's diatribe at June echoes the words Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) uttered to June, back when her name was Offred, in the first season: "You were an adulterer. None of the parties appear conscious of their race, even when hurling their most hurtful barbs. ![]() Nowhere in the exchange was the obvious fact brought up: A black man was leaving his black wife for a white woman. But for the TV series, it was decided that being a fertile woman trumped race." Miller's attempt at a more diverse cast might have been well-intentioned, but by refusing to have the show's characters even see race, he has created a racial utopia that's only getting more fantastical with each passing episode. June's partner is black, and that wouldn't have happened in the original novel because they were segregationists. Margaret Atwood, whose novel forms the basis of the show, justified the series' racial blind spot as an artistic choice in an interview earlier this year: " made the decision that there would be many more multiracial relationships than there had been, since it was in the present time. But now, in season two, the show can't even acknowledge race in present-day America. ![]() Last year, Hulu's standout feminist series was praised by critics for its chilling depiction of "what could happen" to women in the Trump era, but also panned for refusing to acknowledge race in its vision of a dystopian future.
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