You can always count on something serious to go down on every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, so we’d expect nothing less from the season finale. Much life the end of the first season, the show throws us some truly…
Harlots Season 2 Premiere Review: Get ready, because the girls are definitely back in town
Harlots was always a show with quite a bit on its mind. Call it a byproduct of its subject matter, which happens to be about prostitutes in 1763 London, a time when one in five women made their living that…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×12 Review: New life, new twists liven up ‘Postpartum’
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t exactly known for its twists as the various ways it can creatively and emotionally devastate us with them. In “Postpartum,” it does so yet again through Gilead’s true believers. We’ve seen the destruction such people can…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×11 Review: Moss astounds in repetitive yet affecting “Holly”
The best thing about The Handmaid’s Tale episode “Holly” is Elisabeth Moss. It’s powerful stuff, but it’s ultimately filler. Moss is the one whose skill and fearlessness makes “Holly” rise above its limitations. Again. In the episode, June laments that…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×10 Review: “The Last Ceremony” Is The Most Brutally Relevant Episode Yet
Damn it, this episode of The Handmaid’s Tale shouldn’t be as relevant as it is. It isn’t just its themes of brutality being normalized, it’s the depiction of the powerless having their children and infants ripped from their arms while…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×09 Review: Diplomacy Offers Accountability, Atonement In “Smart Power”
If last week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale achieved a milestone in that it finally got me to sympathize with Serena, “Smart Power” does something far more essential. It holds her accountable. This happens through a very intense diplomatic trip…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×08 Review: Gilead’s Women Try To Save A Life In “Women’s Work”
The Handmaid’s Tale crossed a major milestone in the episode “Women’s Work” by getting me to feel sympathy for Serena (Yvonne Strahovski). She’d been fleshed out in previous episodes, but the the reaction I was obviously intended to have never…