This season builds at a much more engaging pace than the past few ones. There is a sense of purpose and urgency that was especially missing last season, as well as a very cinematic execution, from Adam Taylor’s inspiring score and some effective Radiohead needle drops to the show’s signature framings of expressive faces. The jury is still obviously out on the last two installments, but this final bow sure feels like a triumphant comeback.

Creator Bruce Miller, alongside Moss, has delivered a bleak, uncompromising final chapter in a saga that operates as a cautionary tale for modern America.

Like its first season, the drama’s sixth one arrives designed to meet this moment, showing us the risks that must be taken, again and again, to dismantle an out-of-control, overreaching power structure. It can’t happen overnight. .... This may not necessarily make you emotionally eager to watch these final episodes, but it does make this season as attuned to where we are in 2025 as the first was to the Zeitgeist in 2017.

Taken on its own merits, there are definitely interesting story prospects for the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale. .... While it might be cathartic to watch June, Moira and others try to bring the government down, the show now might be too close to reality for our comfort.

In other words, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6 delivers on the promises it’s been making since the beginning, for better and for worse.

Hulu only provided eight of the final 10 episodes for review. But so far, it’s barely deviating from the repetitious story arcs it’s cycled through over the last three seasons, intent on sticking to whatever path it’s set up for itself long, long ago.

Hearing and watching them [Luke and Moira] spell out how much her [June's] savior complex has depleted their patience in a few key scenes almost makes up for the tens of prior episodes flavored by their deference to her unstoppable will. .... You may lose count of the number of times you ask yourself why June and everyone else are doing what they’re doing again and expecting a different result. Watching the definition of madness in action can be maddening.

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This series has gotten worse and worse and this final season in this series is at its very lowest. It has become a terrible show.

Absolute dumpster fire. I regret so much watching 6 seasons of this crap. At some point they just gave up: Disregard logic, disregard accountability, disregard everything, let's just end this thing in a way that we like, even if it makes zero sense. Plot armor think as a brickwall, entire security squads disappearing or doing nothing because we need to do this thing. This show started meh, progressed badly and ended as utterly ridiculous. I also don't mind woke unless it's badly done, and yeah, it is badly done here.