The Handmaid’s Tale boss: “You can’t avoid the influence” of President Trump in Season 2 -- the #MeToo movement will also be addressed

The Hollywood Reporter

In fact, showrunner Bruce Miller is worried about drawing too many parallels with the Trump era in Season 2. “Our writing staff is a news junky bunch, very politically active and thinking a lot about politics, very engaged in the world,” he says. “Most of (the writing staff) has children and they think about what the world will mean for them. It's a big influence on the way you think about everything in your life, which definitely bleeds into the story-making process. But America has its own issues that don't necessarily align with the issues at play in Gilead, or even a pre-Gilead America. You have to be careful not to draw too many parallels.”