![]() ![]() Although Nick tells her to trust them and that it's really the resistance, Mayday, that has come for her. Indeed, the Season 1 finale, "Night," ended in pretty much exactly the same place as Atwood's novel ended: with Offred being carted away into a black van by Gilead's secret police, the Eyes. Surely there can't be that much of Atwood's source material left to adapt. ![]() Books and television are entirely different artistic mediums, and adapting one into the other comes with a variety of challenges, not the least of which is: What do you do when you run out of source material? Is The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 still based on the book? After all, Margaret Atwood's seminal 1985 dystopian novel is only about 300 pages long in most editions, and Season 1 of the HBO series already ran for nearly 10 hours of total screen time. ![]()
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