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- HULU
- Apr 27, 2021
- HULU
- Apr 27, 2021
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.
- HULU
- Apr 27, 2021
- HULU
- Apr 27, 2021
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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Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
62
56% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
Grueling and gripping. [10-23 May 2021, p.9]
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Based on 38 User Ratings
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Based on 38 User Ratings
6.0
55% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
26% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
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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SEASON 4
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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SEASON 4
The first three episodes of Season 4’s back half are not outstanding, though No. 8 is pretty damn close. They’re just good — they do what needs to be done, they do it well, and they don’t waste any time (well, they don’t waste as much time). June’s evolution pushes the series beyond the traumatic horrors of past seasons and into unsettling antihero territory. Eventually, Season 4 delivers on delayed payoffs and does so with as much urgency and, dare I say, joyous gratification as one can expect from this show.
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.
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.
While the fourth season moves toward breaking that old catch and release merry-go-round, it doesn't sufficiently persuade us to wholly invest in any hints at evolving beyond it. June despises Gilead and hates it more each time she's forced to go back, but without providing a vision as to where the story's headed the best we can muster in reaction to her plight is a yawn.
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.
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 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.
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SEASON 4
Seems the show has lost it's way. The original story has been, to a significant extent, sidelined in favour of contemporary social issues which I imagine most of us don't really care about all that much. Lazy script writing has made an entrance as well with many instances of inappropriate dialogue, meaning things are said which just aren't in the real world.
Let's take the Gilead language of bless this, that and the other thing. The people you escaped to Canada are still using it. These people lived in contemporary America until two or three years ago so getting back to a normal world, one would imagine, would prompt these people to speak the way they have for the vast majority of their lives.
The special effects are not that special either. In one scene a group of girls is running across a railroad track and are hit by a train despite the fact they are 10 feet away from the railroad. Then what's left stows away aboard a train in a liquid railroad car. And what a railroad car it is, first off they find one whose contents are not hazardous and is only two thirds full, good luck indeed. The real killer though is that this rail car is internally lit, no doubt to make it easier for the bacteria to meet up and then during the day the above mentioned lights transform into little windows so the sun streams in, the only thing lacking was a bed. I won't go into how they drained this car or how they got out but it's imaginative as well.
So what starts out as an interesting story soon turns into a very much, a "meh" TV show.
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SEASON 4
The Handmaid's Tale has a June problem. June has become less and less likable… She is cruel, always depressed, ungrateful and I wish the show focused on Gilead and the dangerous vision of a possible future it paints…. The show has outgrown Margaret Atwood’s masterpiece and one can feel her pen is not in charge any longer. Disappointed!
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SEASON 4
I really appreciate the slow pace its creators have given to the show, it's one of the reasons that make it special, but this is not about pacing. It's about treating your audience respectfully. This season simply keeps beating about the bush too much. Scriptwriters seem to value more the profits from artificially enlenghtening the show than spectators' time.
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SEASON 4
For a case study in how modern TV writing ruins great works of literature take The Handmaid's Tale. Utterly perverting the meaning of the book and turning an iconic character into yet another reddit superhero revolutionary. That Atwood was consulted on the show is surprising given how it turned out (though given The Testaments comic book stupidity perhaps it isnt). This is how you ruin a truly great book by a truly great writer. The usual checklist of idiocy is here : tokenism, extremist politics, 'its not x-ism when we do it' etc. It couldve been iconic. It should have been iconic. It wasnt. Add it to the pile of great content HBO has massacred with its stupidity.
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