The Handmaid's Tale

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Season 4
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 26, 2017
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 38
  3. Negative: 11 out of 38
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  1. shag00
    Feb 23, 2022
    4
    Seems the show has lost it's way. The original story has been, to a significant extent, sidelined in favour of contemporary social issues which I imagine most of us don't really care about all that much. Lazy script writing has made an entrance as well with many instances of inappropriate dialogue, meaning things are said which just aren't in the real world.

    Let's take the Gilead    Seems the show has lost it's way. The original story has been, to a significant extent, sidelined in favour of contemporary social issues which I imagine most of us don't really care about all that much. Lazy script writing has made an entrance as well with many instances of inappropriate dialogue, meaning things are said which just aren't in the real world.

    Let's take the Gilead language of bless this, that and the other thing. The people you escaped to Canada are still using it. These people lived in contemporary America until two or three years ago so getting back to a normal world, one would imagine, would prompt these people to speak the way they have for the vast majority of their lives.

    The special effects are not that special either. In one scene a group of girls is running across a railroad track and are hit by a train despite the fact they are 10 feet away from the railroad. Then what's left stows away aboard a train in a liquid railroad car. And what a railroad car it is, first off they find one whose contents are not hazardous and is only two thirds full, good luck indeed. The real killer though is that this rail car is internally lit, no doubt to make it easier for the bacteria to meet up and then during the day the above mentioned lights transform into little windows so the sun streams in, the only thing lacking was a bed. I won't go into how they drained this car or how they got out but it's imaginative as well.

    So what starts out as an interesting story soon turns into a very much, a "meh" TV show.    … Expand

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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Rachael Sigee
    Dec 3, 2021
    60
    We already know that life for women in Gilead is abhorrent, and it feels like the more interesting story now lies outside the bounds of this hellhole.
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  2. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Peg Aloi
    Dec 2, 2021
    80
    There are some mind-blowing plot developments to come: some of them quite soul crushing, while some of them are very moving, and others truly suspenseful and thrilling.
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  3. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Aug 16, 2021
    60
    Isn't it nice to see the women giving the men their own medicine? Blessed day. And quite telling when murder and castration come as sunny relief.
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