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The Handmaids Tale - Season 2
In the near future, fertility rates will fall due to sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution. With this chaos, the authoritarian and Christian government of Gilead establishes a rule in the former United States in the wake of civil war. The community is organized by power-hungry leaders along a new hierarchical system of intolerance and newly created social classes where women are brutally subjugated, the second season of the drama series The Handmaid's Tale.
4 December 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
April 25, 2018
Even the moments you dare to hope for, well, hope in the bleak, blue-toned powder keg that is Gilead, it's impossible to shake the feeling one wrong move, one wrong breath, might incite catastrophic doom. It's both terrifying and riveting.April 25, 2018
Handmaid's Tale had a tough act to follow, but its second coming soars on multiple levelsApril 23, 2018
I was blown away by the first hours of the new season, which are so gripping that my blood pressure rose right along with my admiration for everyone behind this series.April 24, 2018
The series is persuasive in both its ideas and drama, and... the stakes grow higher.April 25, 2018
[Yvonne] Strahovski, a commanding, cool actress, registers all these conflicts within the physical constraint of a primly severe green dress. She's like a blade of grass trembling at the sound of the lawn mower.April 25, 2018
The fourth [episode is]... the show's best depiction to date of how unearned guilt holds a vice on one's identity, fragmenting it into abstract concepts of good and evil that leave no space for the true essence of humanity.April 25, 2018
The most compelling scenes in the new season are the ones that explore how exactly Gilead took over America, and that draw on contemporary events and figures with eerie relevance.April 25, 2018
Rather than hitting notes of triumph that inevitably ring false, these latest chapters lean into the all-consuming anguish. It follows through on the logical implications of its premise-but also raises a critical question about its direction.April 23, 2018
Still excellent, still a desperately bleak downer.April 24, 2018
The Handmaid's Tale is powerful and propulsive. After the first three episodes, when the horrors become more predictable, it's even pretty watchable.