The Handmaid's Tale

2017
4.7
632 reviews
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Season 4 episodes (11)

1 Pigs
4/28/21
On the run after the end of Season 3; an injured June (Elisabeth Moss) and the fugitive Handmaids find refuge at a farm; where the 14-year-old Wife nurses June back to health. June restores her role as the women's leader. In Gilead; an imprisoned Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) tries to avoid a death sentence; and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) reels from the loss of 86 children on Angels' Flight. The combative Waterfords (Joseph Fiennes; Yvonne Strahovski); in custody in Toronto; learn of June's feat.
2 Nightshade
4/28/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) plots revenge at the local Jezebels; before she and the Handmaids plan to leave the farm for the next safe house. Meanwhile; in Toronto; Moira (Samira Wiley) deals with the fallout of June's choices; and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and Fred (Joseph Fiennes) are bound together by a miracle.
3 The Crossing
4/28/21
Captured by Gilead; June (Elisabeth Moss) faces a vengeful Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and endures a torturous interrogation. Nick (Max Minghella) and Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) collaborate to protect June. Meanwhile; in Toronto; Luke (O-T Fagbenle) struggles with how to help June and Hannah.
4 Milk
4/5/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) takes a harrowing journey with Janine (Madeline Brewer); trying to escape Gilead; as Janine remembers a stressful experience in her past. In Toronto; Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) tries to manipulate Rita (Amanda Brugel); who seeks advice from Moira (Samira Wiley).
5 Chicago
5/12/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) seeks out more active rebels in the Chicago war zone; while Janine (Madeline Brewer) tries to help her fit in with their new group of survivors. Meanwhile; Moira (Samira Wiley) goes on her first field aid mission.
6 Vows
5/19/21
After a shocking reunion with a dear friend; June (Elisabeth Moss) contemplates the possibility of freedom and confronts the unfulfilled promises she's made to herself and to Luke (O-T Fagbenle).
7 Home
5/26/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) struggles with her newfound freedom; reuniting with loved ones and confronting her nemesis; Serena (Yvonne Strahovski).
8 Testimony
6/2/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) confronts Fred (Joseph Fiennes) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) in court and challenges Emily (Alexis Bledel) to face a painful reminder of her Gilead past. Meanwhile; Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) presents Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) with a newly captured; familiar Handmaid.
9 Progress
6/9/21
June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke (O-T Fagbenle) work together to save Hannah; reaching out to Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and Nick (Max Minghella) for help. Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and Fred (Joseph Fiennes) greet unexpected visitors from Gilead. Janine (Madeline Brewer) tries to assist Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) when a Handmaid-in-training goes on a hunger strike at the Red Center.
10 The Wilderness
6/16/21
In the season finale, June (Elisabeth Moss) objects to Fred's (Joseph Fiennes) plea bargain agreement and struggles to accept his pending freedom. She draws on all her resources and relationships, risking everything to ensure her own kind of justice.
401 The Handmaid's Tale Season 4 Official Trailer
4/28/21
In Season Four of "The Handmaid's Tale;" June (Elisabeth Moss) strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader; but the risks she takes bring unexpected and dangerous new challenges. Her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships.

About this show

Facing a plunging birthrate; a fundamentalism regime has begun treating women as property. As one of the few remaining fertile women; Offred is a Handmaid; one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as an attempt to repopulate the world.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
632 reviews
Tim Dermoss
January 27, 2018
This is the worst written, poorly constructed and edited with no world building in a tv show. There is no evidence this is a horrible life. The choppy back and forth timeline makes this a mess. There is no logic to why things are the way they are and accepted and why they would want short ugly babies when models would be more believable. It's painful to watch Moss up close nonstop. The narrow focal length and look makes this show look cheap and plastic on bluescreens. Not a best show at all but we all know why it wins because of this fake victimization fear mongering in society. Seriously f this show.
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Maria Jamison
January 7, 2024
Hysterical anti-male agitprop that only an idiot could love. I watched it for the lulz. I do have questions though. For starters, can anyone explain to me why Elizabeth Moss seemed so sad when confronted with a decapitated Lincoln Memorial? Iconoclasm became a celebrated activity for a good day out nary a year later all across the United States, and I can assure you, it wasn't religious fundie fascists destroying those statues of old white men. Liberals: your ideology is completely incoherent.
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Brad Scalio
May 8, 2021
The episodes themselves as a standalone piece follow a narrative and character arc; however, if you watch The Handmaid's Tale in quick succession it becomes apparent when Atwood's inspiration ends as all structure and character development ends with it. While art imitates life, the constant progression and retrogression in each episode of the overarching story makes the series as a whole difficult to sustain; for every carrot dangled at the viewer, six are stolen back by the closing credits.
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