The Handmaid's Tale is hard to watch this season because of how it parallels current events

Salon.com

"Current events — actual real world happenings — are inching toward meeting up with early days of the dystopian nightmare that is Gilead much more than a woman like me is comfortable with," says Melanie McFarland. "To anyone battling Trump fatigue, the offer of being further sickened and drained by our entertainment just feels unnecessarily cruel. This is not the fault of its producers or Margaret Atwood, who wrote the novel upon which it’s based decades ago. On the contrary, the fact that binging the second half of the season on Tuesday led me to crawl into bed and sleep for 10 hours straight indicates how potent and artistically brilliant Atwood's vision, and how this series realized it, happens to be. Two thumbs up, seriously . . . although if this were Gilead I might not have thumbs, since the punishment for being a woman caught reading is the loss of a finger."