The Handmaid's Tale writer says the relevance to of this week's episode is "terrible and uncanny"

The Hollywood Reporter

Amid the Trump administration's immigration family separation controversy, the Hulu series aired an episode last night dealing with family separation. "It's terrible and uncanny," says Yahlin Chang, who wrote last night's episode. "Someone was saying, 'What do you hope people take away from this episode?' I said, 'That it's really wrong to rip mothers and children apart, rip children away from their mothers.' It's just wrong, wrong, wrong." Chang adds that she "did a ton of research for this scene. I talked to social workers and psychologists and resident experts at the UN about what would really happen (in the event of such a separation). Now, it doesn't seem so uncommon, but at the time that I wrote (the episode) many, many months ago, I was surprised to realize that this scene happens all the time, because mothers and children are often separated either because of war time or because the child is taken away from the mother because it's an unsafe home." ALSO: Chang says: “I do worry about people not wanting to watch because this was a very hard episode to watch."