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The Handmaid's Tale had a Testaments problem

The Handmaid's Tale had a Testaments problem

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May 27, 2025
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After six seasons, the final episode of The Handmaid’s Tale aired yesterday and it was… well, underwhelming. The show had written itself into a hole that was almost as hard to escape from as it was for handmaiden’s getting out of Gilead.

Elisabeth Moss as June, leaning on a windowsill in a derelict room

There are two paths the series could conceptually take:

  1. Explosive finale with action and our heroes retaking America fr…

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