A fine line between dystopia and torture porn
May 09, 2021
3 minutes
MONICA HESSE
THERE’S a scene in the newest season of The Handmaid’s Tale (be warned, vague spoilers and many trigger warnings ahead), in which a character has a cloth placed over her face, and while watching it I thought “What’s next? Waterboarding?”
And then, yes! It was waterboarding.
By then, the episode had already included a grisly fingernails-and-pliers scene. The character had already been locked in a box and hit in the face and shamed and berated and gaslit. What
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