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Rhiannon Ingle
Topics: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Donald Trump, Life, News, Politics, Pregnancy, Real Life, Social Media, TV And Film, True Life, US News
People are rushing to social media all making the exact same eerie point about final season trailer for The Handmaid's Tale.
For anyone unfamiliar with the hit dystopian series, it's a TV adaptation of author Margaret Atwood's novels which follows a woman named June living in 'Gilead' - America's new patriarchal regime.
Set in the near future, most women are mysteriously sterile, and the series follows a handful who have proven fertile and are forced to be the surrogates - or 'handmaids' - for the government's leaders.
Check out the official Hulu trailer for the upcoming season here here:
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The show, which first hit our screens back in 2017, also delves into themes including; gender hierarchy, gender roles, reproductive freedom (or lack of), fertility struggles, religion and theocracy, identity, freedom, rebellion, and survival - just to name a few.
Ever since the official trailer for season six dropped earlier this week (19 March), fans have rushed to social media to share the deeply unsettling parallels between some of The Handmaid's Tale's recurring motifs with what is happening in parts of the real world in the modern day.
One X user penned: "This show’s been on so long it came true before it ended."
"This show is still on? I thought we were just living it," echoed a second, while a third confessed: "Don’t know if I can watch it now… with things as they currently are…"
And a final fan declared: "I feel strange watching how it end while we’re still living in the beginning - the rise of Gilead unfolding in real time here in the United States."
The reproductive rights of women and people who are able to conceive in America have been under threat especially following US president Donald Trump's inauguration at the start of this year (20 January).
Trump, who has described himself as 'the most pro-life president in American history', has made a series of alarming statements on the topic of abortion rights.
Two years ago, the father-of-five publicly praised the US Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade - a law which generally protected the rights of a woman or person who can have an abortion - describing the move as a 'beautiful thing to watch'.
While campaigning in 2016, he promised to appoint Supreme Court judges who would overturn the ruling.
And in May of last year, he bragged about his involvement in the change.
"After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v Wade, much to the 'shock' of everyone," Trump told press at the time.
The Handmaid's Tale season six will be available to stream next month (8 April) on Hulu.