The Handmaid's Tale: Season 4

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HULU | Season Premiere Date: April 28, 2021

Summary: June (Elisabeth Moss) takes major risks as she fights against the Gilead regime in the fourth season of the drama series based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel.

Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction

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Season 4 Episodes

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S4:E10. The Wilderness
Air Date: June 16, 2021
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S4:E9. Progress
Air Date: June 9, 2021
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S4:E8. Testimony
Air Date: June 2, 2021

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Whitney Friedlander

Apr 23, 2021

As the fourth season moves along, so do plot similarities to past seasons and repetitions. Captures happen. Tortures happen. People die; sometimes because of June and sometimes not. ... Moss, with her stiff upper lip and watery blue eyes, is still one of the finest actresses this side of Meryl Streep. ... There’s an excellent subplot regarding Rita (Amanda Brugel). ... It also works when Handmaid’s Tale pokes fun at itself. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Apr 27, 2021

Thankfully, season four finally regains some momentum and forward motion. Based on the eight out of ten total episodes made available to critics, this is the best The Handmaid’s Tale has been since its first season. Read full review

The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Jun 21, 2021

This remains a big, bold, brassy show. Read full review

Verne Gay

Apr 27, 2021

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. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Aug 16, 2021

Isn't it nice to see the women giving the men their own medicine? Blessed day. And quite telling when murder and castration come as sunny relief. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Apr 27, 2021

The Handmaid's Tale is solidly entrenched in the things it does well — with Elisabeth Moss' performance as an unimpeachable centerpiece — and most frustrating in its bleak and repetitive rhythms. Read full review

Kelly Lawler

Apr 28, 2021

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. Read full review

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majednazal

Apr 30, 2021

Still as beautiful, as suspenseful and as tragic as it has always been, amazing first 3 episodes. I can't wait for what's to come

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rafaelsantosY2

Apr 29, 2021

É a continuação árdua de uma saga agora de vingança, perdas e reviravoltas. Um passo decisivo e fortemente competente no arco de superação da protagonista.

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globalnomad

Jun 20, 2021

Season 4 doesn't "go around in circles." It's more a matter of June probably thinking to herself, "Just when I tought I was out...deyyyy pull me back in." The slow burn in the first four episodes doesn't bother me; I'm always up for some grim Extreme Old Testament vs. kick-ass June. The showSeason 4 doesn't "go around in circles." It's more a matter of June probably thinking to herself, "Just when I tought I was out...deyyyy pull me back in." The slow burn in the first four episodes doesn't bother me; I'm always up for some grim Extreme Old Testament vs. kick-ass June. The show and this season are still Prestige TV ranking with other current ones such as Better Call Saul, Ozark, etc. Eventually you should find this season satisfying.… Expand