All Wednesday morning, ABC fangirled over the dystopian feminist show on Hulu, The Handmaid’s Tale, with its star, actress Elizabeth Moss, appearing both on Good Morning America and The View to promote its third season. Both ABC shows immediately tried to tie recent statewide abortion bans to the patriarchal dystopia warned about in the fictional show.
On The View, co-host Joy Behar fawned to Moss that she appreciated how the show spawned “necessary” activism from the left over abortion.Before that, co-host Whoopi Goldberg introduced Moss and the show.
“Now The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a dystopian future where women have no control over their bodies,” Whoopi said, stopping to smirk and chuckle at the camera as if this all sounded too familiar. She went on to ask Moss if she agreed that the show mirrored present-day America:
“Many people including 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris and other politicians have compared the show to the new wave of anti-abortion laws now in the country. Good comparison? Not so good? Your opinion,” she asked.
Moss called it an “apt comparison,” boasting that the show was “relevant” to today’s America. She was quick to add that the show was not just about America but all around the world and claimed that everything shown in the show is based off of true events. But Joy Behar wanted to bring it back to Trump’s America. She noted the liberal protesters who don the show’s red “handmaid” costume were showing up everywhere and that was a good thing because America “needed them:”
“[W]omen are wearing those outfits when they go to protest. They wore them at the Kavanaugh hearing. They wear them at pro-lifer things.There it is. Look at that. It's very very interesting that those caught on right now when we need them,” she gushed to Moss.
Moss agreed, gushing with enthusiasm, “I know and It's a pretty iconic image...There's no mistaking what it means when you see it. It’s pretty-- this is where this person stands. We're flattered by that but we also, you know, I think are impressed by it as well.”
Behar claimed it was like the MAGA hat for the left. “It's like the MAGA hat. You know where they stand. And these are for the other side,” she noted, to Moss’s agreement. Surprisingly the interview didn’t get any more political than that, despite the co-hosts usual enthusiasm for abortion and feminism.
How much do those in the liberal media love Handmaid’s Tale? Katie Couric on wednesday posted a picture of herself in one of the costumes. She even referred to herself as a “fangirl” of the lefty series.
