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The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

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The Handmaid's Tale

2017

Bruce Miller (Creator), Reed Morano ...

Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Max Minghella, Yvonne Strahovski ...

7.6

26,932

TV Series. Drama TV Series (2017-Present Day). 5 Seasons. 56 Episodes. In a dystopian near-future, the totalitarian and Christian fundamentalist government of Gilead rules the former United States amidst an ongoing civil war. Society is organized along a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of Bible-inspired social and religious fanaticism and newly-created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are not allowed to work, own ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"[5th Season Review]: The filmmaking is flawless in every department, producing top-quality performances and some impressive world-building, while the emotive battle between June and Serena makes for gripping TV. (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Abby Cavenaugh Collider	"[5th Season Review]: more of the same (...) Some of the biggest events of this season lead to some pretty uncomfortable viewing, but viewers who stick with it will be rewarded with some huge moments."	NEU
United States	Emma Fraser The Playlist	"[5th Season Review]: Whether Moss is vibrating with rage, shame, or even a tiny amount of joy, it is impossible not to be hypnotized by her work"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[5th Season Review]: five years and 54 episodes later, both the series and its star are hitting their limits."	NEG
United States	Tara Bennett IGN	"[5th Season Review]: The series continues to suffer with very measured storylines that can’t seem to recapture the kinetic energy of the first two seasons"	NEU
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[5th Season Review]: 'Handmaid’s' is in a new, fascinating era, one that’s at its best when it’s unbounded from current events (...) excels when it treats its situations as symbolic and its characters as real."	POS
United States	Fatemeh Mirjalili SlashFilm	"[5th Season Review]: Even Elisabeth Moss cannot save 'The Handmaid's Tale' from itself, for it is a tale surviving on borrowed time"	NEG
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[4th Season Review]: Performances and cinematography are still top-tier, but narrative repetition remains frustrating"	NEU
United States	Liz Shannon Miller Collider	"[4th Season Review]: Those who have seen the previous three seasons and choose to come back for more, brace yourselves, because you can still expect this show to dig into the darkness, as much as ever"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"[4th Season Review]: This season does offer a few rare notes of freshness (...) New things, things we've waited for, start to happen in episode 6. A few of these moments are genuinely cathartic and moving"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peg Aloi Radio Times	"[4th Season Review]: There are some mind-blowing plot developments to come: some of them quite soul crushing, while some of them are very moving, and others truly suspenseful and thrilling (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[4th Season Review]: Plot holes and redundancies abound, but Bruce Miller's dystopian drama slowly finds its footing around midseason."	NEU
United States	Whitney Friedlander Paste Magazine	"[4th Season Review]: Much of the fear factor is lost (...) This isn’t to say that everything about the fourth season of 'Handmaid’s Tale' is bad. The directing is still beautifully shot"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"[4th Season Review]: [It] escapes the suffocating climate of Gilead but can't avoid the sensation that this provocative series is now operating on borrowed time."	NEU
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"[4th Season Review]: If anyone feared a quality drop-off in this series, then those fears are eased in the first episode of season 4. This is a brilliant continuation to the last finale (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[3rd Season Review]: Still occasionally powerful, but rarely as provocative (...) What the first six new episodes lack isn't prescience, but a sense that the show has anything new to say"	NEU
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"[3rd Season Review]: A frustratingly repetitive season (...) It keeps hammering home its greatest hits to the detriment of the possible new avenues it could explore."	NEG
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	"[3rd Season Review]: [It] rights many – though definitely not all – of Season 2's wrongs (...) The new season is more propulsive and watchable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[3rd Season Review]: [It] isn’t short on powerful moments (...) or personal growth (...) but it does falter at times while trying to bring the two together (...) [It] bites off more than it wants to chew"	NEU
United States	Delia Harrington Den of Geek	"[3rd Season Review]: It must be said that this is still one of the most stunningly beautiful shows on television. From the costumes and set design to the direction (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"[3rd Season Review]: Even the show’s visual and narrative flourishes are starting to feel like stylistic tics"	NEU
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"[3rd Season Review]: The first half of the season does spark a renewed energy in the show — one that finally begins to move beyond the depressive rut that 'The Handmaid’s Tale' had found itself in."	POS
United States	Maureen Ryan Variety	"[2nd Season Review]: There are moments of heart-piercing beauty amid the horror; this season’s directors are skilled at finding color-saturated or windswept tableaus that recall classic paintings"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[2nd Season Review]: Miserable as ever, but beautifully done (...) For those who enjoy the agony, just brace yourself for that return to darkness."	POS
United States	Robert Rorke New York Post	"[2nd Season Review]: [It] sends extra shivers down your spine because we are not accustomed to seeing a weekly drama series where women torture other women (...) Bledel continues to blossom as an actress (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jen Chaney Vulture	"[2nd Season Review]: [It] is just as brutal, visually pointed, and brilliantly acted as it was in season one. (...) [It] remains one of the most meticulously, thoughtfully photographed series on television."	POS
United States	Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone	"[2nd Season Review]: Moss remains excellent (...) 'The Handmaid's Tale' remains an agonizing horror show to witness"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"[2nd Season Review]: A pervasive mood of dread through quiet, deliberate storytelling (...) Some of the most powerful scenes have no dialogue, yet swell with intense emotion."	POS
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	"[2nd Season Review]: 'Handmaid's' big improvement over the excellent first season is that it more seamlessly toggles between scenes with Offred and the rest of the characters (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A masterfully unnerving vision of a near future [...] Moss is a brilliant muse, a fantastically unsettling alloy of fury and stillness [...] impressively nuanced performances"	POS
United States	Liz Shannon Miller IndieWire	"One of the best shows of the year so far, at times hard to watch but impossible to ignore [...] [Elisabeth Moss] fully commands each and every moment, every swallowed emotion and thought."	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"This is probably the spring's best new show and certainly its most important."	POS
United States	Jen Chaney Vulture	"This series is meticulously paced, brutal, visually stunning, and so suspenseful from moment to moment that only at the end of each hour will you feel fully at liberty to exhale."	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Time	"'The Handmaid's Tale' is as crisply and elegantly made as anything I've seen on TV this year. It manages to bring a dystopian story to life in a way that works as episodic TV, sapping none of the book's power."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"'The Handmaid’s Tale' is a superb, necessary show (...) these first episodes are certainly a brilliant, compellingly moreish start."	POS
United States	Tara Ariano Vanity Fair	"[5th Season Review]: la temporada lleva esta oscura serie especulativa a un nuevo territorio tonal: el 'camp' involuntario"	NEG

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