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…
Harlots 1×6 Review
A story about prostitutes has many traps to avoid. But the Hulu series Harlots does it in a way that defies all expectations. This is not a story that portrays them as angelic victims, who sing of past hopes as…
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…
The Handmaid’s Tale Review: 1×1-1×3
One of the signs from the Women’s March that most sticks in my mind was “I can’t believe I’m still protesting this shit.” It seemed to be a common refrain among the older women. Watching The Handmaid’s Tale, I can…
The Handmaid’s Tale: Watch Hulu’s first Super Bowl spot
Say what you will about the quality of today’s Super Bowl commercials, but there are few that truly make me stop to watch them. Hulu’s first every Super Bowl ad for its new series, The Handmaid’s Tale, did just that. With…