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Critic Reviews
Apr 7, 2026
Season 1 Review:
“The Testaments” is an exemplary follow-up to the original series. It is also a magnificent coming-of-age story. .... Finally, it’s a stellar examination of the uniqueness of girlhood and how the patriarchy underestimates the power of female connection, often to its peril.
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Apr 8, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Showing this [indoctrination] is far less exciting than the images of grown women being killed or stripped of their rights as presented in “The Handmaid’s Tale” (though “The Testaments” does offer a few very chilling flashbacks). But as social commentary, it’s difficult to beat the sight of young women, recognizable in so many ways as modern teens, complying with their own enslavement, out of ignorance and, as events proceed, the gut-wrenching fear of what the truth might mean.
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The IndependentApr 8, 2026
Season 1 Review:
There will be some who find the daily flow of news sufficiently monstrous, who don’t need fiction to hold a mirror up to society right now. But, for others, The Testaments will serve as an impressive follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, lightening the tone, upping the pace, but retaining its careful depiction of how a society can backslide into regression and repression.
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The TelegraphApr 8, 2026
The GuardianApr 8, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Though it is slightly leavened by a little humour, but mostly by the innate hope offered by the age of the protagonists, The Testaments is, like its predecessor, a study in groupthink – in power, corruption and the ease with which ordinary people acquiesce to evil practices.
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TV InsiderApr 2, 2026
Season 1 Review:
At times, when the tone veers into adolescent gossip, mean-girl rivalries, and mad crushes (including one tangled love triangle), it can feel like how the story might appear on a channel like Freeform. But at its best, which is to say its worst, the premise is as unsettling as ever.
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The PlaylistApr 6, 2026
Season 1 Review:
As visually polished as the interior of the characters’ opulent houses, the series needed to probe further and embrace and wield the rightful, blossoming rage of the characters as they realize the lives they’ve been born into are, in many, varying regards, a death sentence. There’s power to the story being told, but the showrunners don’t seem to understand how to wield it.
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Apr 8, 2026
Season 1 Review:
With the same style and sensibility come the same sins. "Testaments" veers frequently into sensationalism and guffaw-worthy ridiculousness, leaving gaping plot holes. .... If the bad is all the same as "Handmaid's," the good parts of "Testaments" are at least novel and refreshing.
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