“Big Little Lies” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” – The Top 25 Programs of 2017, No. 3

Why put these two very different shows together?  Because they both took a very bold and uncompromising look at how women are treated and/or thought of, and while HBO and Hulu could not have known what was about to happen in real life at the time that they developed Big Little Lies and The Handmaid’s Tale, respectively, these two dramas certainly resonated in a year that found women marching to preserve their rights and fighting back against male domination and physical abuse of every kind.