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    'The Handmaid's Tale' boldly opens Season 2 in terrifying but familiar form

    by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Apr 25, 2018 4 minutes

    Any questions on how a modern, democratic society devolves into a brutal, authoritarian regime almost overnight are addressed within the first few moments of "The Handmaid's Tale" when it returned to Hulu on Wednesday.

    The bold Season 2 opener picks up where the 2017 finale left off, with handmaid Offred, aka June (Elisabeth Moss), being smuggled out of child-bearing servitude in the back of a windowless van, presumably away from the theocratic Republic of Gilead (formerly America's East Coast) and toward the freedom of Canada.

    But this is no rescue. She's been driven deeper into the dystopian nightmare, if that's even possible

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