Genre: Drama/ Thriller
Number of episodes: 13
Year: 2018
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Max Minghella, Alexis Bledel, Anne Dowd, Bradley Whitford
Description: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Review: “There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it”.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” had a wonderful start, season 1 was fantastic and very captivating. And season 2 is also fantastic. Although, June’s life isn’t and it’s not getting any better.
There are so many heavy themes this series deals with: child marriage, rape, slavery, abuse, oppression and dictatorship. But the scariest parts is maybe the inability to do anything about it.
There is a constant fight going on. Not only the fight between good and bad, because the show isn’t that black and white. We see the emotional fight of Serena, the fight between Serena and June, the fight between the establishment and them thinking it's so good what they’re doing. The right to self-determination, to decide as a woman what you want to eat, drink, carry and who you want to love.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” is filmed beautifully in a dystopian world that used to be America. Gilead is seen through the eyes of the women, wearing red, blue and grey. You can see the children’s faces, that never asked for this and grow up thinking this is normal. And the cruelty of the men and women higher up the ladder, who think they have the wisdom.
Serena's battle is beautifully performed by Yvonne Strahovski. How broken June is, is shown in the fantastic performance Elisabeth Moss delivers. But Fred Waterford’s brute force, which Joseph Fiennes more than excellently portrays, is also a feast for the eye and ear. It’s for a reason that all three have been nominated an Emmy Award and Moss even won a Golden Glove for her role.
Gilead pulls the viewer into the world that seems so far away, but it actually lives around the corner. A world were June is forced to live in, which is cruel and bloody. When you think everything is going to be okay, things get even worse. It seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel and that a world like this cannot become better. Happiness is not a word that describes Gilead. The last few episodes of this season is full of tension and you still have hope, but inside you know it will no
t get better. And I will no longer think that anyone in this series will ever find happiness, as long as they live in Gilead.
This series surprised me so much, it’s daring and doesn’t shy away from confronting situations and themes. And, like its first season, season 2 is strong from start to finish.
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