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There is definitely a sense of the familiar in this season ofThe Handmaids Tale.
Women continue to be silenced, in ways that are mind-boggling in their inhumanity.
June is still, without question, the epicenter of the series.
If Im going to survive this, she says via voice-over in the third episode, Ill need allies.
Then this show is for you.)
June still believes Serena may be willing to help her and that seems like a real possibility … maybe.
The Handmaids Taleexcels in other ways too.
The direction remains impressive, mixing a sense of the epic with the ultraintimate.
As always,The Handmaids Talecaptures both the scope and the minutiae of a culture overrun by patriarchal overreach.
But as aware as I am of those flaws, I still cant look away.
