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SummaryBased on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel, in the totalitarian society of Gilead, a handmaiden enslaved to produce a child for Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) named Offred (Elisabeth Moss) seeks the daughter taken from her.

The Handmaid's Tale

6 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: 
Apr 25, 2017
Metascore
Generally Favorable
80
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
82% Positive
97 Reviews
17% Mixed
20 Reviews
2% Negative
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Apr 25, 2018
100
Uncle Barky
Handmaid’s Tale had a tough act to follow, but its second coming soars on multiple levels. It’s intense, heartbreaking, full of resolve and perfectly paced.
Apr 19, 2017
100
Variety
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a worthy, heartbreaking adaptation of the text, anchored by strong performances and profound visual grammar.
User score
Generally Favorable
73% Positive
826 Ratings
9% Mixed
102 Ratings
18% Negative
207 Ratings
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Dec 25, 2022
10
Grebe1570
Can’t wait to see more. This is a must watch completely related to what is happening in America slowly. This is awakening and thrilling at the same time. Keeps you hooked for a easy binge watch!
May 17, 2022
10
globalnomad
Elizabeth Moss and the dystopian view of the American evangelist world that many of them would love to see come to fruition just keeps on giving. Yes, the second and third episodes continue to inhabit that world, and it's like an opioid.
Apr 25, 2017
90
CNN
Filled with striking imagery and a nagging sense of dread, the series also exhibits a disarming darkly comic streak, as Offred's looks and asides underscore the absurdity of her situation.
Jun 21, 2021
80
The Guardian
This remains a big, bold, brassy show.
May 29, 2019
75
Slant Magazine
While the writers have successfully created an atmosphere of dread and uncertainty that echoes that of the show’s characters, the withholding of catharsis can be wearying. Like society itself, the series resists progress at its own peril.
Dec 3, 2021
60
i
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.
Apr 28, 2021
30
USA Today
Season 4 teases something bigger, a pivot to the future, and then takes two steps back once again. By the end of the eight episodes made available for preview, there are hints of something different and promising. But to get there, viewers are subjected to the worst of the series' impulses, as if the first seven episodes were a thumb-twiddling waste of time. And in many ways, they are.
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Jul 30, 2019
10
MaxVonMaximus
Riveting and nail-bitingly addictive! Hopefully this doesn’t happen in real life in the future.
May 28, 2025
6
Glyndower
Thank god this has finally ended. The first two seasons were amongst the best TV series ever and a tribute to one of the great 20th Century novels but after that it just went downhill, especially when Elisabeth Moss was allowed to direct. Her episodes were egotistical in the extreme mostly consisting of extreme close-up shots of her looking angry. A classic case of a fine actor who couldn't direct the Thames past Westminster Bridge. The major problem was that the series just became dull and repetitive: June escapes and then decides, for no logical reason to go back to Gilead. There is clearly something wrong when the antagonist, Serena Joy, is more interesting than the heroine. Let's hope that the projected prequel 'The Testaments' is better.
Jul 28, 2020
6
JJJ
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
Oct 15, 2019
3
steveyme
Season 1 amazing. Season 2 crashed and burned hard, far too little plot progression. Didn't bother with Season 3.
May 30, 2021
2
Broyax
Une ambiance de dictature fort bien rendue dans cette série qui met en scène une autocratie religieuse à la fois bigote et fanatisée ainsi qu’un étrange mélange entre l’islamo-fascisme façon Mormons extrémistes et le communisme paranoïaque de la Corée du Nord ! Les femmes pour la majorité d’entre elles y sont réduites à l’état de « servantes », c’est-à-dire des pondeuses officielles du régime qui n’ont pour seule utilité que d’assurer leur « destin biologique »… L’actrice principale campe avec talent l’une de ces servantes et la réalisation de la série reste indéniablement élégante. Cependant, la narration reste d’une lenteur d’escargot, une lenteur désespérante tout au long de cette prémière saison, sauf peut-être lors du tout premier épisode… et encore. Difficile dans ces conditions de ne pas piquer du nez, vu comment ça se traîne à n’en plus finir… et à cet égard, je n’ai pas pu finir la saison. Et dire qu’il en existe trois autres ! En outre, alors qu’elle est déjà à dormir debout, la série abuse des raccourcis et se perd ici et là dans des incohérences énormes qui la font s’effondrer comme un château de cartes. Ils nous prennent vraiment pour des jambons là-dedans ! Cela dit, ça m’a donné envie de lire le livre : je doute qu’il soit aussi chiant que ça ! du moins, je l’espère.
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  • Daniel Wilson Productions
  • The Littlefield Company
  • White Oak Pictures
  • MGM Television
  • Toluca Pictures
Apr 25, 2017
6 Seasons
TV-MA
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 15 Wins & 78 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 9 Wins & 63 Nominations
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