A few days before the launch of its fifth season, on September 14 on the American platform Hulu, the series The Scarlet Maid was immediately renewed on Thursday for a sixth and final chapter.
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Relayed in Canada by Crave, the television dystopia starring Elisabeth Moss is of course inspired by the anxiety-provoking universe developed by the Canadian Margaret Atwood in her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
In a statement, series creator Bruce Miller spoke of a show that will “unfortunately remain more relevant than ever throughout its run,” a clear reference to the United States Supreme Court’s invalidation of United of the judgment Roe v. wadeon the right to abortion, which took place last June.
A decision that Margaret Atwood commented on obliquely in July, posting a portrait on social media showing her with a cup in her hands on which is written “I told you so” (“I told you so”) . In a post published in May in The Atlantic, the writer confessed to having often interrupted the writing of the novel, because she considered the story too far-fetched. It is today widely described as a prescient text.
Launched in 2017, The Scarlet Maid is the first show created for a video-on-demand service to win an Emmy award. Bruce Miller is currently working on a spin-off series titled The Testaments.