The Handmaid’s Tale (final season)–An Acknowledgement or Acceptance?
Keeping things fresh in the sixth and final season of Handmaid’s Tale, this award-winning drama moves the story ever closer to authoritarianism embedded in a hellscape of a misogynistic dystopia. Gilead is attempting to remake itself, presumably for public relations more than anything else. Smoothing the edges of its own religious extremism with a more feminine touch, New Bethlehem is created as a place where Gilead’s “handmaid” refugees can return and live under a kinder regime. Handmaid June Osborne (the masterful Elisabeth Moss) and the resistance know better than...