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Bruce Miller finally said the quiet part out loud — and it’s astonishing how unintentionally revealing this quote is.
“Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters. We had to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to have to go away from that in Testaments.”
So now it’s admitted, openly, that they went away from Atwood’s characters — and will continue doing so in The Testaments.
The same team that spent YEARS insisting they were honoring the source material…
The same writers who dismissed fan criticism as “misunderstanding the story”…
The same showrunner who swore Season 6 was “aligned” with Atwood…
Now suddenly reframes it as “we had to go away from that.”
This is exactly what many of us have been saying:
The disconnection wasn’t accidental. It was deliberate.
And the moment they’re in promo mode for the next project, the narrative shifts again.
Not accountability.
Not honesty.
Just a new justification dressed up as creative necessity.
It’s remarkable how they claim Atwood writes “deliciously specific” characters — while proudly admitting they ignored those specifics when it actually mattered. Especially when those choices gutted entire arcs, flattened motivations, and rewrote characters (Nick, June, Luke, Serena) into versions unrecognizable from the text.
This is why The Testaments feels like a continuation of the same problem, not a fix for it.
If the starting point is “we’re going away from Margaret’s characters… again,” then how is this a sequel to her story and not a sequel to their retcon?
And this is exactly why our campaign exists.
Not out of pettiness.
Not out of fandom drama.
But because the creative team keeps shifting their story after the fact to avoid accountability for the narrative damage they caused.
They told us for years they were faithful to Atwood.
Now they admit they weren’t.
And in April, they plan to do it again.
We saw it.
We documented it.
And we called them out for it.
BOYCOTT THE TESTAMENTS!!!
God, yes, this is exactly it. This is the closest we probably are ever going to get to an actual admission that they dismantled canon on purpose. Not a misunderstanding. Not “creative divergence.” A choice. And now they’re saying it out loud like it’s a fun little trivia fact instead of the structural collapse of an entire narrative.
The second he said “we had to go away from that,” the game was over. That’s the confession. That’s the mask slipping. Because you don’t “go away” from Atwood’s specificity without rewriting the soul of the story, and they did. They did it to Nick. They did it to June. They did it to Luke and Serena. They reshaped everyone to fit the ending they wanted, not the one the text earned.
And now they’re teeing up The Testaments with the exact same justification. Not course-correction. Not respect for canon. Just doubling down on the retcon.
Their own words prove everything fans have been screaming into the void. This is as close as we’re getting to them saying, “Yeah, we broke it.” And instead of accountability, they’re packaging it as a creative strategy.
Which is exactly why people are done. Exactly why the campaign exists. Exactly why April is going to be a line in the sand.
If they’re proudly announcing they’re abandoning Atwood’s characters again, then this isn’t her story anymore, it’s theirs. And fans are under no obligation to follow them into a sequel built on the bones of the canon they already gutted.
Boycott The Testaments. If they’re so eager to “go away” from Atwood’s characters, they can do it without our viewership holding their hand.