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The Handmaids Tale - Season 4
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
18 September 1970, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
April 26, 2021
The Handmaid's Tale's fourth season can't decide if June is a hero or a danger to her fellow revolutionaries - and that's just the tip of its narrative issues.
April 23, 2021
If you thought the past three seasons were good, be prepared to be breathless with, hands down, the best, most impressive season of the series
April 23, 2021
Much of the fear factor is lost... This isn't to say that everything about the fourth season of Handmaid's Tale is bad.
April 27, 2021
There's at least one more season to go in this grim and unrelenting story. Re-enter this Tale at your own risk.
April 26, 2021
When did the incessant castigation of women become primetime entertainment?
April 27, 2021
The tail-end of the episodes sent to critics takes the story to a point that fans and characters have probably been wanting. But that comes after a run of restless episodes in which no location or situation is given any time to develop or breathe.
April 27, 2021
Far from being escapist television, The Handmaid's Tale continues to act as a mirror to our present troubling times, and as a dark lens focused on our uncertain future.
April 27, 2021
An especially grim grind.
April 27, 2021
It's challenging to explain what specifically makes the Hulu drama more compelling this season without walking into spoiler territory. But the key difference is that the stakes feel higher and more urgent.
April 23, 2021
The Handmaid's Tale is stuck in the crisis stage.
April 27, 2021
While Season 4 may be trying to making the case for the show's continuation, what's not totally clear is how sustainable this path really will be.
April 23, 2021
As with Dexter and Homeland, the dystopian drama has exceeded the natural lifespan of its story, as it plows forward with nothing new to say, tinkling cymbals and sounding brass.
