# Handmaid's Tale **URL:** **By** Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Tess Terrible, Marianne March, Natalie Dowzicky **Published:** November 6, 2019 --- We are excited to welcome Elizabeth Nolan Brown to our show for a lively conversation about Handmaid's Tale. American viewers love dystopias that are just eerie enough. In Gilead, a totalitarian theocratic state, reproduction rates are plummeting and women at-large are having trouble conceiving children. The answer to this problem is to institute child-bearing slavery. Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Marianne March, Tess Terrible, and Natalie Dowzicky unpack this controversial and timely television show.