A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her.
2nd season has been great. The writers have really done a good job. A few episodes were a little drawn out IMO but they covered some backstories of the characters. I see more Emmy awards this season.
The concept sounds similar to the Dominion Trilogy I am currently finishing up. Some mutant gene was preventing girls from being born so all women were rounded up and held in a facility after the United States was destroyed and used as experiments to try to figure out a way to create female births and save mankind. Drugs were pumped into the young women to try to recreate the missing gene which caused cancer and a multitude of diseases so those women were sold to the FAE trade who in turn, auctioned them off to men for their own use. Only one women, the "savior", was able to reproduce and was immune to the side effects of the drugs. The concept kept my interest enough to where I am finishing up the third and final book in the series.
