The Handmaid's Tale began as a 1985 novel read by generations.

It's since been turned into a film and an opera, and then, beginning in 2017, a hit series on Hulu, one now coming to an end.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has a look for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

For years, we've been afraid of them.

Now it's time for them to be afraid of us.

It's time for a reckoning in Gilead.

The fictional near-future Theocratic Dictatorship the U.S. has become in the hit Pulu series, The Handmaid's Tale, now beginning at sixth and final season.

Our audience has been very loyal and patient, and, you know, revolutions take time.

Shut your mouth. Be a good girl.

Elizabeth Moss plays June Osborne, a handmaid, a category of women forced into sexual

servitude as childbears in a future in which most women are infertile.

In season one, viewers saw how she and most women have lost their freedoms, and in some cases had

their children taken from them.

As democracy was overthrown, and the country came under the control of a religious patriarchy.

In 2017, as the series was making its debut, Ma spoke to us about her character.

The heroine of the book is an anti-heroine, that she's a human, that she's a

wife, a mom, is a normal person and then is sort of picked up, taken, and dropped into

this scenario and has to figure out how to survive.

We talked again recently as the series prepared to reach its end.

Six seasons later, she has done a lot of fighting, a lot of surviving.

A lot of surviving.

And I think in the interim six years, I do think that she has become more of a hero, which

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