‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Production Designer Elisabeth Williams Shapes A Desecrated Washington D.C. For Season 3
Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineIn the third season of The Handmaid’s Tale, one of production designer Elisabeth William’s challenges was to craft a dystopian version of Washington, D.C., for a nation overthrown by a totalitarian regime.Created by Bruce Miller, Hulu’s acclaimed drama centers on June (later known as Offred), a woman who is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship, who sees her family and every vestige of her former life stripped away. By Season 3, June has gotten one of her children safely to Canada, plotting then to topple Gilead, along with an escape with her eldest child to the Great White North.