The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x07 The Other Side. The Other Side feels like an escape. It’s a very deliberate departure from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which was limited by its own premise – limited to Offred’s perception of Gilead, her small room, her house, the Chinese Whispers about Mayday, which eventually, at the end of the book, arrived at her house. There was a very vague sense of the world outside, but nothing very ...