‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 Review: Warnings And Entertainment Continue to the End

To say goodbye to the job, take a souvenir with you? Of course, it has to be. But serial star Elisabeth Moss has obviously pushed this to the top.

The new Gilead series is based on Margaret Atwood's book The Testaments.

Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Trump, Reunited

THR’s chief TV critic reflects on how the sixth and final season of 'The Handmaid's Tale' hits differently during the second Trump presidency.

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 Review: Warnings And Entertainment Continue to the End

When The Handmaid’s Tale premiered on Hulu in 2017, the dystopian landscape of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel was only a glimmer in the distant future. Today, as the series comes to a close with its sixth season, we seem to be on the precipice of that reality. Gender equality and LGBTQIA rights are under direct attack in the United States, and the government is integrating methods of control that feel far starker than they have in recent generatio…

'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 6 Review: Finally, An Ending

I remember the exact moment that The Handmaid’s Tale lost me. In the Season 2 finale, June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), otherwise known as Offred, had been suffering for years in the dystopian religious oligarchy known as Gilead. She had lost her husband, her daughter, her mother, and her best friend. She had successfully given birth to her daughter Holly, but as a Handmaid had to give up the child to Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wi…

Elisabeth Moss on the Emotional Link Between Motherhood and Her 'Handmaid's Tale' Character

The focus of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has always been the journey a mother takes to reunite with her daughter. Although there are concurrent running storylines, the dystopian show mainly focuses on Elisabeth Moss’ character June Osborne, as she searches for her first daughter who got ripped from her arms at the height of the formation of Gilead. You may have heard our world compared to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘ more times than is necessary, or even san…