Series Review
'The Handmaid's Tale' successfully navigates unchartered waters in S2
As the plot moves beyond Margaret Atwood's original book, this dystopian drama proves that it still has plenty to say about pertinent issues in season two
SPOILER ALERT! This article contains spoilers for the first season of The Handmaid's Tale
After its spectacularly successful first season, which saw it win eight Emmys and become the first streaming service show to win a Best Drama award, Bruce Miller's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel heads into unchartered waters in its second season.
The second season has become to series what the second album is to many recording artists - the moment in which we really see what the creators are made of and whether they're able to consistently deliver.
In this case there's a double-edged sword for Miller and the cast of the show as they are no longer able to rely on the source material provided by Atwood's piercingly prescient novel. They must take their exploration to a new plane of interrogation of the sexual dynamics of the dystopian, ultra-conservative, brutally Old Testament-guided world of Gilead...
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