I hear you. Me too... I haven't watched the movie or read the book (coincidentally an acquaintance asked if I planned to watch it) because well...the author wrote it to as a cautionary tale of how Christian fundamentalism might look like if it took over the world. "Atwood maintains that the Republic of Gilead is only an extrapolation of trends already seen in the United States at the time of her writing, "

And having been raised in fundamentalist Christianity, I don't need to read the book to know how dystopian it is.

Also, the "woman as tool only for surrogacy" it talks about kinda already happens in countries outside the USA, just in a nicer and more civilised fashion of course...

I prefer Octavia Butler's Parable series, which is also a powerful critique of fundamentalist Christianity, weaved in with a powerful tale of the resilence of complex trauma survivors.