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The Handmaid's Tale season 1: news and episode reviews
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April 24, 2018
Handmaid’s Tale season 1 covered most of the book. Here’s what’s left.
The show still hasn’t touched the book’s epilogue. And then there’s Offred’s mom.
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June 14, 2017
“Night” is the best season finale The Handmaid’s Tale could have had
A strong episode lets the Handmaids find strength in unity.
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June 7, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale stares into the face of death — and beyond
"The Bridge" pushes everyone as close to the edge as they can stand.
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May 31, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale takes a disturbing field trip that leads to an unlikely reunion in “Jezebels”
Too bad the episode is too scattered to be truly powerful.
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May 24, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale takes us out of Gilead to check in on a familiar face
This might be the series’ best break from its oppressive setting yet.
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May 17, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale digs into Serena Joy’s past
Plus: Are the show’s too-triumphant endings its fatal flaw? Or just a miscalculation?
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May 10, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale tries to add a little romance, with mixed results
Why is Nick so dull when everybody else on the show is so compelling?
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May 3, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale sends Offred some much-needed words of wisdom
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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April 27, 2017
Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid's Tale and what happens when sex is a radical political act
What do her Handmaid’s Tale character and Mad Men character have in common? “A fantastic stubbornness.”
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April 26, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale’s first 3 episodes are brilliant, terrifying television
Hulu’s new series starts by broadening the book’s world — and leaning into its horror.
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April 26, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale is a handbook for surviving oppressive systems
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
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April 25, 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale cast has resisted calling it feminist. So did Margaret Atwood, once.
Margaret Atwood’s feminism is intersectional. For years she did not call it feminism.
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April 25, 2017
Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is an extraordinary adaptation of an enduring classic
The stunning series, which stars Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, is about this moment in history — and every moment in history.
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April 24, 2017
Samira Wiley on why Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is “a direct response to the world that we’re living in”
The Orange Is the New Black actress talks about her new show’s relevance and feminism in 2017.
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April 3, 2017
April is going to be great for television. Here are 11 shows you shouldn’t miss.
American Gods, Handmaid’s Tale, and 9 more of April’s most exciting TV premieres
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June 8, 2016
It’s Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, and we’re just living in it
Human/pig chimeras are inarguable proof that Margaret Atwood is our Nostradamus.