Warning, spoilers. It is recommended that you watch The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 before continuing reading this article.
More than a year after the controversial Season 4, The Handmaid’s Tale is returning for a fifth season, which will begin airing on September 15th on OCS in France. Despite some controversy, Bruce Miller’s series, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, remains relevant, especially today.
As women’s rights in the United States are eroded—with the Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights—The Handmaid’s Tale returns at a pivotal moment. June’s upheaval is all the more welcome during The Atlantic’s uncertain years after the Trump administration, which began to coincide with the release of Season 1 of the series.
Four seasons later, the heroine June (played by Elisabeth Moss) finally exacts revenge on her executioner, Fred Waterford, a high-ranking commander of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state that empowers men and turns women into women and diminishes their family, domestic or family life. Reproductive “functions”.
Season four ended with Freddie dead, hunted and beaten to death by June, and twenty more servants released from Gilead and out for revenge. In his bloody madness, June points the finger at Serena Waterford, Freddie’s wife, and officially declares war.
After watching the first two episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5, we have a feeling that the confrontation between June and Serena will be the main plot of these new episodes. As each manages their own emotions and traumas, tensions rise between the two young women, but miles apart.
June is no longer the same and no longer recognized by those around her, the desire for revenge slowly consumes her and in her heart there is only a vital desire to find Hannah, her daughter who was once taken from her. Ten years before, when he became a servant.
On the other hand, Serena is lonely after the death of her husband, Fred. Up to her neck pregnant, she barely has time to grieve when she already has to come up with a solution to regain her power and hope to find a place she wants and restore her image in Toronto, feeling the principles of Gilead kick in. If they were released in Canada.
Two great actresses Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski continue to amaze us with their performances and we are excited to see them team up for a true showdown in good and proper form. Along with their anger and rage, Season 5 will explore their actions and trials on their everyday psyches as they try to reclaim their bodies, personalities and lives.
For these new episodes, The Handmaid’s Tale teams continue to use the tried and tested recipe of careful production, suspended and always sublimated moments with skillfully chosen music, shocking scenes and very close-ups of June’s face (which still tends to irritate sometimes).
Still, the strained relationship between June and Serena is left hanging, and it’s time to dive back in and maybe put an end to it? Even if The Handmaid’s Tale continues to enchant us with its main theme and anchor our reality, we fear a new escalation of violence, sometimes gratuitous, that could undermine the theme of the series.
If season 5 continues in a more strategic direction, consisting of political low blows and confrontations in the cerebral field, then the series will break out of the usual pattern and benefit from a new lease of life. Without losing its vitality and organic strength, The Handmaid’s Tale would benefit from restoring depth to its secondary characters, who deserve more exploration.
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