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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Handmaid's Tale
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Red Clocks 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
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Mister Miracle 2019Also grave
Mon traître 2008Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Martyr! 2024Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Everything Under 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
J 2014Also grave, contemporary and prestige
Drown 1996Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Dernier été de la raison 2001Also grave, contemporary and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Master 2022Also grave and contemporary
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children 2015Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Pleasure 2021Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Series
Kiznaiver 2016Also contemporary, grave and earnest
The Corner 2000Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Midnight Mass 2021Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Albums
- Under the Pink 1994Also grave, contemporary and earnest
- Ideologia 1988Also grave, contemporary and earnest
- Punisher 2020Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Games
The Swapper 2013Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Neversong 2019Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Silicon Dreams 2021Also contemporary and grave
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