The Handmaid S Tale Season 2

This article contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2, Episode 11, and speculation about the plot for future seasons.

More than any other episode before it, “Holly” made clear that June’s voiceovers in The Handmaid’s Tale are more than just a powerful storytelling device.

June is telling her story to someone, somewhere, at some time in the future. And that raises a whole mess of questions we might not even have thought to ask before.

Who is the “you” June is telling her story to? How is she even telling her story at all, when she lives in a society that forbids her from either speaking or writing? What does it mean for her survival — and Gilead’s? And what does this tell us about the show’s endgame? Read more…

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Few shows are as committed to anything as The Handmaid’s Tale is to delivering deeply upsetting content.

The first six episodes of the show’s second season have more or less been an unyielding loop of horrors that have driven home the futility of fighting against a fundamentalist regime as powerful and twisted as Gilead, and audiences have been treated to the sights of a thwarted escape attempt, the murder of innocents, mental reprogramming, teeth falling out just all over the damn place, and the justified poisoning of Marisa Tomei.

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