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- 2017
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2017
- TV-MA
- HULU
Summary Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel, in the totalitarian society of Gilead, a handmaiden enslaved to produce a child for Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) named Offred (Elisabeth Moss) seeks the daughter taken from her.
- 2017
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2017
- TV-MA
- HULU
The Handmaid's Tale
6 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 25, 2017
7.4
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Summary Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel, in the totalitarian society of Gilead, a handmaiden enslaved to produce a child for Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) named Offred (Elisabeth Moss) seeks the daughter taken from her.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 108 Critic Reviews
81
84% Positive
91 Reviews
91 Reviews
15% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 108 Critic Reviews
81
84% Positive
91 Reviews
91 Reviews
15% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Handmaid’s Tale had a tough act to follow, but its second coming soars on multiple levels. It’s intense, heartbreaking, full of resolve and perfectly paced.
[A] magnificent and effectively haunting 10-episode series.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,039 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
777 Ratings
777 Ratings
8% Mixed
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
17% Negative
176 Ratings
176 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,039 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
777 Ratings
777 Ratings
8% Mixed
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
17% Negative
176 Ratings
176 Ratings
Elizabeth Moss and the dystopian view of the American evangelist world that many of them would love to see come to fruition just keeps on giving. Yes, the second and third episodes continue to inhabit that world, and it's like an opioid.
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Through careful direction and precise writing shaped by showrunner Bruce Miller, this is a drama that is remarkable in its ability to horrify while maintaining a delicate air. As threatening and oppressive as the world of Gilead is, the series has an energetic stamina about it that prevents the story from sinking under the weight of despondency.
This remains a big, bold, brassy show.
If not much sunnier, not as relentlessly grim as the second, while June is slowly, methodically, morphing into the Robo-June we know she must become. So far, so good.
There's not a whole lot of pleasure to be had in the waiting. June's ordeal has now started to feel like our ordeal. We need to have it resolved as much as she does. but like her, don't have any choice in the matter because we're invested too.
Season 4 teases something bigger, a pivot to the future, and then takes two steps back once again. By the end of the eight episodes made available for preview, there are hints of something different and promising. But to get there, viewers are subjected to the worst of the series' impulses, as if the first seven episodes were a thumb-twiddling waste of time. And in many ways, they are.
Riveting and nail-bitingly addictive! Hopefully this doesn’t happen in real life in the future.
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While the show itself seems well produced and clearly has a decent cast - the material on which it is based is just not to my taste... I guess for me a 'post apolcaypctic' world has to follow a certain logic for me to buy into it. The world building logic leaps here are plentiful and noticeably **** in their execution. If you aren't fussed about the logic of the world and just want to immerse yourself in a fantasy (albeit nightmarish!) this may well be perfect for you.
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Une ambiance de dictature fort bien rendue dans cette série qui met en scène une autocratie religieuse à la fois bigote et fanatisée ainsi qu’un étrange mélange entre l’islamo-fascisme façon Mormons extrémistes et le communisme paranoïaque de la Corée du Nord !
Les femmes pour la majorité d’entre elles y sont réduites à l’état de « servantes », c’est-à-dire des pondeuses officielles du régime qui n’ont pour seule utilité que d’assurer leur « destin biologique »… L’actrice principale campe avec talent l’une de ces servantes et la réalisation de la série reste indéniablement élégante.
Cependant, la narration reste d’une lenteur d’escargot, une lenteur désespérante tout au long de cette prémière saison, sauf peut-être lors du tout premier épisode… et encore. Difficile dans ces conditions de ne pas piquer du nez, vu comment ça se traîne à n’en plus finir… et à cet égard, je n’ai pas pu finir la saison. Et dire qu’il en existe trois autres !
En outre, alors qu’elle est déjà à dormir debout, la série abuse des raccourcis et se perd ici et là dans des incohérences énormes qui la font s’effondrer comme un château de cartes. Ils nous prennent vraiment pour des jambons là-dedans ! Cela dit, ça m’a donné envie de lire le livre : je doute qu’il soit aussi chiant que ça ! du moins, je l’espère.
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Production Company:
- Daniel Wilson Productions
- The Littlefield Company
- White Oak Pictures
- MGM Television
- Toluca Pictures
Initial Release Date: Apr 25, 2017
Number of seasons: 6 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 15 Wins & 77 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 9 Wins & 59 Nominations
