Handmaid’s Tale’s new season to focus on Serena and June
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Atwood’s dystopian vision in A Handmaid’s Tale feels relevant again. But this also means that it focuses solely on the bond between June and Serena, neglecting everything else that is happening at the moment—mostly because this season is only loosely focused on anything else in particular (much like the book itself).
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Serena was traumatized after Commander Waterford killed himself as she had been complicit in his crimes.
Despite being a woman, Serena still possesses the skills of a survivor. Even though she escaped to Gilead, June cannot let go of her anger and rage that is always boiling below the surface with Moss, which pulls them back together again.
While fighting with her husband over family life, Maggie quickly discovers that she is not willing to compromise. Her season focuses on the struggles of motherhood and their associated sacrifices.
Moss is a show-runner, producer, and occasional director for the hit show “Handmaid’s Tale,” which is scheduled to return in just a few weeks. The new season hasn’t given me any reason to stop watching over the past few weeks as it has brought on some great moments that are both shocking and heartbreaking. “Talking Radical Radio” co-host Professor Brandon Hayes describes the plot as “a little bit of this, a little bit of that.”
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With the sixth season’s announcement that it will be the last, the show should be able to build towards a conclusion with a better end game. There are only a few people who could accuse of Game of Thrones’s being premature.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the macro story explores the relationship of Gilead to the larger world. There are also other plots involving Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), what it would be like to have a conscience and how arbitrary or minor aspects of daily life in Gilead might change because of changes in the government. In addition, there are people who struggle with their moral intuitions and whether they should accomplish the goal from within quietly or resist from without. Commander Lawrence is one character who struggles with this question in an interesting way, and his dilemma is a central tension on that larger level.
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However, fundamentally, Handmaid’s Tale has struggled to match the searing urgency and remarkable imagery (those crimson cloaks, which even showed up at a Supreme Court protest) of its Emmy winning first season.
Though the narrative does come to its satisfying conclusion, this season’s story reflects the show’s inevitable fall from relevance.
The Fifth season started streaming on Hulu on September 14.
About The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian TV series on Hulu. The show was created by Bruce Miller, based on the book of the same name by Canadian contesteer Margaret Atwood. It is also contained 10 episodes and premiered in late 2016.
In Oryx and Crake, Snowman creates a dystopian society with a totalitarian theonomic patriarchy splintering society off into different castes. Fertile women are called “Handmaids” and are forced to have as many children as possible for more of the ruling elite’s offspring.
The series premiered on April 26th, 2017; the remaining seven episodes of the season were released every Wednesday. In July 2019, Season 4 was greenlit in order to premiere April 27th, 2021.
On September 14, 2022, the series finale of The Handmaid’s Tale was aired. In September 2022 before the fifth season began, Hulu announced that a sixth and final season would be produced to give the show a more finalized ending. The sixth and final season premiered on September 14, 2022.
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The Handmaid’s Tale is the first series to win an Emmy for Outstanding Series produced by Hulu and the first series on a streaming service to win that award. The show won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from thirteen nominations, with other wins including Outstanding Drama Series.
The series earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series. Elisabeth Moss also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Film.
The series was released on the subscription video-on-demand service Lightbox in New Zealand on June 8, 2017. Neon, a streaming service owned by satellite company Sky, acquired the rights to the show in New Zealand after Sky purchased Lightbox and merged it with it in July 2020.
Soon after its release, the television series debuted in Australia on the SBS on Demand video streaming service. The TV show was also broadcast on Stan, a paid on-demand video service.
In 2018, Season 1 of the show premiered on RTÉ2 in Ireland. RTÉ has already broadcast Season 2, 3 and 4 and will premiere Season 5 in late 2018 on Paramount Channel.
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The first episode of the Indian edition aired on AXN on February 5, 2018, and on January 31, 2020, all three seasons of the show became streamable on Amazon Prime Video.
In March 2018, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the first season of Gotham on Blu-ray and DVD. In December 2018, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the second season of Gotham on Blu-ray and DVD. In November 2019, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will release the third seasons of Gotham on Blu-ray and DVD.
According to The Guardian and BBC, The Handmaid’s Tale is the 25th and 38th finest television programme of the twenty-first century, respectively. It scored an average of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic and an overall rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
