Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.

It's been a minute.

We are entering my favorite season, Emmy season, and my guest today is up for an Emmy.

She is the only female director nominated for directing in the drama category.

Her name is Karri Skogland.

She has directed episodes of Ford Rock Empire and the Americans and the Walking Dead, House

of Cards.

And she's up for an Emmy this year for directing Who Lose the Handmaid's Tale.

This show stars a lot of talented actors like Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, Joseph

Fines, and Doubt.

And all of those actors are Emmys themselves this year too.

So the Handmaid's Tale is adapted for TV from the Market Atwood novel, The Classic by

the same name.

It was adapted by writer and showrunner Bruce Miller.

It was set in this America where infertility has plagued everyone but a handful of women

who are forced into sexual slavery by a ruling class religious extremist.

I know, it's heavy.

Karri and I talk about the show and what it's like to work on something that is so challenging

and dark.

And we talk about female directors in Hollywood.

Why it is still so hard for them.

And this is a thing that Karri has been writing about and talking about for decades.

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