How do conservatives react to fiction based in reality that casts them as the villains?

My SO and I were watching The Handmaid’s Tale the other night and he said to me “I wonder what conservatives think when watching this show. I mean, it was a very popular show. Lots of them must have watched it. Did they think the handmaids were the villains? Did they recognize themselves in the villains? Were they even rooting for Offred?” I added that a lot of movies and TV shows have villains who are clearly conservatives and I wonder what conservatives think and feel while watching the villain taking advantage of a loophole to evict poor people from their homes, or squelching a woman’s dream of becoming a doctor because she’s a woman, or threatening the gay person with violence, or denying someone their inheritance because he married a Muslim, etc. Is it offensive? Does it ever make you question your beliefs?