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The Handmaid's Tale
Season 1
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Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her.
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10 Episodes
Offred
E1
Episode 1
Offred
Offred, one the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife.
Birth Day
E2
Episode 2
Birth Day
Offred and her fellow Handmaids assist with the delivery of Janine’s baby, prompting Offred to recall her own daughter’s birth. Offred draws closer to Ofglen while dreading a secret meeting with the Commander.
Late
E3
Episode 3
Late
Offred visits Janine’s baby with Serena Joy and remembers the early days of the revolution before Gilead. Ofglen faces a difficult challenge.
Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
E4
Episode 4
Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Punished by Serena Joy, Offred begins to unravel and reflects on her time with Moira at the Red Center. A complication during the Ceremony threatens Offred’s survival with the Commander and Serena Joy.
Faithful
E5
Episode 5
Faithful
Some people in Offred's life are taking on surprising new roles. The former Ofglen, now Ofstevens, has information to share with Offred before shocking everyone gathered near the market place. Flashbacks reveal the unconventional beginning of the relationship between June and Luke.
A Woman's Place
E6
Episode 6
A Woman's Place
A Mexican Ambassador visiting Gilead questions Offred about her life as a Handmaid. Serena Joy reflects on her marriage and the role she once played in Gilead’s inception.
The Other Side
E7
Episode 7
The Other Side
Remembering her family’s treacherous escape attempt, a shocking revelation from life before Gilead provides a new perspective on Offred’s life.
Jezebels
E8
Episode 8
Jezebels
The Commander surprises Offred with a secret adventure in Gilead. Nick’s troubled past leads to his recruitment by the Sons of Jacob.
The Bridge
E9
Episode 9
The Bridge
Offred embarks on a dangerous mission for the resistance. Janine moves to a new posting. Serena Joy suspects the Commander’s infidelity.
Night
E10
Episode 10
Night
Serena Joy confronts Offred and the Commander. Offred struggles with a complicated, life-changing revelation. The Handmaids face a brutal decision.
Cast of Season 1
Elisabeth Moss
June Osborne / Offred / Ofjoseph
Yvonne Strahovski
Serena Joy Waterford
Joseph Fiennes
Commander Fred Waterford
Ann Dowd
Aunt Lydia / Miss Clements
Madeline Brewer
Janine Lindo / Ofwarren / Ofdaniel / Ofhoward
Max Minghella
Nick Blaine
O-T Fagbenle
Lucas 'Luke' Bankole
Samira Wiley
Moira Strand
Season 1 Reviews
Autostraddle
Dorothy Snarker
What makes The Handmaid's Tale so striking isn't just this world where all the pretense of female equality has been stripped away, but the ordinariness of such oppression even today.
NPR
David Bianculli
Watching it happen is like seeing a monster movie but one where the monsters are the men seizing power. And the future world of "The Handmaid's Tale" is even more haunting because it's all paranoia and bleakness.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
It's as if we're watching from an existence apart from a world gone quietly insane. But any distance this is supposed to give us is eradicated by how much our precarious present bears a discomfiting resemblance to the fiction on our screens.
NPR
Eric Deggans
Hulu's excellent adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is a horror show unveiled in slow motion.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Beautiful, immersive and joyless, "Tale" can be tough to watch, but "rewarding" trumps "tough."
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
We'll see where the adaptation goes from here. Already, though, Hulu's series has erased the pale 1990 feature film version directed by Volker Schlondorff, starring Natasha Richardson.
Autostraddle
Riese Bernard
It was so close, too real, impossible, familiar, not enough, and everything, all at once.
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
If dystopic art is to serve as a commentary on what's currently taking place in the world, its stewards would do well to remember that.
Village Voice
Sophia Nguyen
Moss has a birdlike (or is that raptor-ish?) intelligence that comes alive in alien environments - no one else makes wariness this watchable, or responds so precisely.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
They've had some minor critical success with shows like The Path and 11.22.63, but this is the program that takes Hulu's status in the medium to another level.
The Ringer
Alison Herman
Once The Handmaid's Tale was done being a phenomenon, it had to start being television, and that, more or less, is where the problems began.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Neal Justin
Elisabeth Moss ... brings humanity and wit to the title role.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Another reason to watch: It's just so beautifully acted.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
The rest of the cast gives solid performances, especially Wiley as the fired-up Moira, but the show rests on Moss's shoulders, and she gamely carries every one of her scenes.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
We should know that the cancer of hate will always be part of our world, but the message made resoundingly clear in The Handmaid's Tale is how much we stand to lose by acquiescing to its existence.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Filled with striking imagery and a nagging sense of dread, the series also exhibits a disarming darkly comic streak, as Offred's looks and asides underscore the absurdity of her situation.
MTV
Inkoo Kang
There's little blood in The Handmaid's Tale, but Hulu's 10-part adaptation, which debuted with three episodes yesterday (April 26), is no less terrifying for it.
The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
Atwood's story may now be an artifact about an artifact, but it retains its great power as a reminder of the thin tissue between the past and the present.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Offred is very much the center and Moss has never been more compelling. As oppressed as Offred is, she's fully human and, unfortunately, a character both of and for our time.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
The three episodes available for review are essentially true to the book, and what additions and emendations as have been made would seem to have passed muster with the author, who was a consultant on the series.
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