In Kipo and the Wonderbeasts, a teenage girl is lost in the big, evil world is a common trope for television, especially animation. This Netflix animation television series is different. Usually, such stories don’t catch my attention. I’m not thirteen-years-old, and exposure to the “real” world has desensitised me to the naïve, often cliched wonder depicted in such cartoons.
Handmaid’s Tale – is there place for hope in dystopia?
Where do we go from Gilead?
** Warning: Some probability of spoilers here **
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is essential reading.