Top of the Lake: China Girl feels like a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

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The second season of the Jane Campion series not only shares Elisabeth Moss with The Handmaid’s Tale, but also a similar theme. As Willa Paskin notes, “Though it is set in present day Australia, not a dystopic near future, the series, which airs over three nights on Sundance Channel beginning Sunday, is concerned to an almost eerie degree with the same themes as The Handmaid’s Tale, including sexism as tangible as a punch in the face, a female underclass whose members are valued for their wombs, and the permutations of biological and adoptive motherhood.”

PLUS: Elisabeth Moss has become the best actress on TV, Moss has become the vessel for cultural misogyny thanks to all her TV roles, and Gwendoline Christie’s role is the opposite of Brienne of Tarth.