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The Handmaid's Tale on OCS: the torment of a season 4 that starts with a narrative stutter

2021-05-01T00:28:56.395Z


CRITICAL - In these new episodes online on OCS On Demand since this morning, the cult series' indulgence for the violence and martyrdom of June, its heroine, amplifies and blocks the plot. Pity.


Celebrated for its disturbing prescience of the Trump years,

The Handmaid's Tale

has captured the insurgent climate smoldering in the United States, the decline in women's rights, the rise of religious conservatism rejecting science.

But the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's classic, once past the plot of the novel, showed a certain complacency vis-à-vis the violence that its characters suffered.

Burned hand, severed finger, lynching.

What the creators responded to based on historical events and show the reality of a dictatorship.

Add to that a frustrating narrative stutter: invariably June, the titular scarlet maid, escapes, hesitates and then refuses to cross the border, which is synonymous with freedom, is captured and manhandled.

Tipping into rage

Unfortunately, these flaws mark the three episodes that launch season 4, online on OCS on demand since this morning and broadcast Thursday evening on OCS Max, and to which French critics have had access.

Is this the season

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Source: lefigaro

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