Political relevance notwithstanding, I thought the filmmaking itself was just OK. Mediocre cinematography, uneven performances (Joseph Fiennes was bland as hell IMO), clunky structure. Last episode was strangely anti-climactic, especially the last 10 minutes.

I have a few Atwood novels on my bookshelf but haven't read this one yet. I want to. I assumed while watching this that the potency of the book was watered down a bit, almost as if they wanted to make Atwood more accessible/relevant for the Divergent/Hunger Games YA dystopia crowd.

Definitely not bad, just left a little something to be desired...