When I was waiting for my sister to give birth to her first child, I fell into conversation with a nurse, as often happens when you hang out at a hospital for a long time. She asked me whether I…
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The Handmaid’s Tale 1×10 Review: Night
Harvey Milk was right when he said, “You gotta give ’em hope.” In a world where The Handmaid’s Tale seems more possible than ever, you can hardly blame the series for granting its audience mercies that the source material would…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×9 Review: The Bridge
It’s good that The Handmaid’s Tale is going back to basics, even if it stumbles a bit yet again in the episode The Bridge. The show has shifted its gaze back to Offred, who is continuing her commitment to fight…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×8 Review: Jezebels
The Handmaid’s Tale seems to flounder when it takes its eyes off its female leads. When the series shifted gears and explored Serena Joy’s history, it was a fascinating look at how women can be complicit in the brutalization of…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×7 review: The Other Side
The Handmaid’s Tale episode The Other Side has everything we’re supposed to want in a show about an all too plausible dystopia. There’s a slow build from a period of relative calm to a whole lot of action, tragedy, and…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×6 Review: A Woman’s Place
When someone remarks, “I guess you get used to things being one way,” in The Handmaid’s Tale episode A Woman’s Place, it feels like a warning. True, the whole series serves as a kind of cautionary tale of what we…
The Handmaid’s Tale 1×4 Review: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
When Offred finds the Latin phrase “nolite te bastardes carborundorum” carved into the floor of the room where she’s essentially being held prisoner for the sin of not being pregnant, it becomes a tenous thread to sanity, even as she…