'Handmaid's Tale' Returns to Television, Darker and More Chilling

"The Handmaid's Tale" returns to television this week with its chilling portrait of a near future where women are turned into second-class citizens seeming even darker and more prescient than ever. That's not by chance. As the Emmy-winning series moves away from Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel, it delves further into how the United States moved from democracy into a fictional totalitarian state called Gilead. Here, pollution has caused widespread infertility, women are forbidden to read...