A Maddening Season Finale for <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>
In its sophomore stretch, the Hulu show abandoned narrative logic and character development to keep its story constrained.
by Sophie Gilbert
Jul 11, 2018
4 minutes
This article contains spoilers through the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Watching the second season of over the last three months hasn’t been an experience anyone would describe as cathartic, or gratifying, or even intermittently escapist. Starting in the first episode, when June (Elisabeth Moss) and her fellow handmaids were muzzled, slung into the back of a truck like cattle, and then led to their own execution (a visceral moment of horror that turned out to be an epic fake-out to punish the women for rebellion), the show was an assault on viewers—a bleak, , , relentless parade of miseries. The fact that its storylines often with the news cycle
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