Is 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 4 Worth Watching?
We had last left June on the road to freedom, but also, let's face it, on a bitter note. The new season promises to be exciting and offers a glimmer of hope.
At the end of season three of The Handmaid's Tale, our heroine, June—brilliantly played by Elizabeth Moss—has once again failed in her efforts to escape to Canada. Collapsed in the snowy woods and suffering from gunshot wounds, she is rescued by her fellow Handmaids and returns to Gilead disguised as a Martha.
June's inability to escape has frustrated us season after season, and the series' fascination with inflicting pain upon its characters highlights a misogynistic brutality that is at times difficult to watch. However, in the fourth season, the series slips toward a more delicate narration, opting for more nuances and playing on new tones.
The show is more tactful, as if it were time to lay new sensory bases, discovering that it's not essential to crudely shed light on the horror experienced by the protagonists, and that it is much more striking merely to suggest. The same dull melancholy, the same irrepressible rage, the same characters being thrown for a loop: the parameters of The Handmaid's Tale have not significantly changed, but the there is now a bit of hope for June's saga.
The first three episodes of season four are now streaming on Hulu.
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