This review contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale season four.
Dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale is at a crossroads. Four years on from its critically acclaimed debut, and well past the bounds of its literary source material, the series faces challenges that relate to violence, representation and narrative.
Earlier seasons posed questions about the conditions under which political extremism and misogyny might thrive and how and why individual women might support such endeavours.
They showed everyday sexism and religious fundamentalism metastasising into a full-blown political movement.
This found particular resonance with Donald Trump’s ascendancy, the erosion of reproductive rights in the US, and the emergence of the alt-right.
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