{"id":4071,"date":"2026-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiki-living.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/has-trump-helped-audiences-become-obsessed-with-gilead-maybe-testament-creators-on-why-the-real-world-hasnt-changed-since-the-handmaids-tale\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:19:37","slug":"has-trump-helped-audiences-become-obsessed-with-gilead-maybe-testament-creators-on-why-the-real-world-hasnt-changed-since-the-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiki-living.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/has-trump-helped-audiences-become-obsessed-with-gilead-maybe-testament-creators-on-why-the-real-world-hasnt-changed-since-the-handmaids-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Has Trump helped audiences become obsessed with Gilead? Maybe&#8217;: Testament creators on why the real world hasn&#8217;t changed since The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-c561f77e-c1da-4e13-a32c-1b0f260aa5da\">As you prepare to view <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em><em> <\/em>a sequel spinoff <em>Testaments<\/em><em> <\/em>on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (international) this week &#8211; launching on April 8 &#8211; something a little closer to home might come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>When season 1 of <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> first launched in April 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the USA a few months ago.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-c561f77e-c1da-4e13-a32c-1b0f260aa5da-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Almost a decade later, a spinoff followed<em> Testaments <\/em>it made its debut 15 months into Trump&#8217;s second term as the 47th President.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">The article continues below <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"inline-block w-2.5 h-2.5 ml-2\" fill=\"currentColor\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 1000\"><path d=\"M1000 100L500 900 0 100h1000z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pb-0 pt-2 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold&#10;        \"><\/p>\n<p>            You might like it<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">At that time, the &#8220;Fable of the Hand&#8221; was accepted as a social shorthand for explaining social and political developments in the West, as a reversal of the historical precedent of Roe vs. He was struck down by the US Supreme Court in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">It almost feels like nothing has changed between the two TV releases, yet a lot has. 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And Bruce, brilliantly, was able to adapt to that. As we&#8217;re in the middle of making the first season <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em>number 45 came into effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is Trump getting help from an audience obsessed with the world we&#8217;ve brought to life? Maybe. But I think we always come back to Margaret&#8217;s vision as a worldview. That was also true when <em>Testaments<\/em> was published a few years ago &#8211; Margaret looked again at how the world was changing, and that Gilead might still be alive &#8230; but in a different place, in a different time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-LKQY8tjwg8HmTTo8GbEfDi\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-LKQY8tjwg8HmTTo8GbEfDi slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for top news, reviews, opinions, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He continues, &#8220;Bruce and I have been saying for years now, we&#8217;d like to go quietly and be useless, but the themes keep bringing us back. The world chooses to make us useful, and Margaret helps us survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is an honest and touching answer. Perhaps we also have a lot to blame for why we agree with Gilead to the extent that we do, and we cannot lay the entire blame at the door of world politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world has changed, Margaret saw that,&#8221; Miller agreed. &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen,&#8221; he jokes about their redundant work, though it sounds a bit unfunny in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p><em>Testaments<\/em> is an extension of<em> The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> in the best possible way, but it means living with uncomfortable ideas and fiction that often feel too close to home. 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