I loved it! Can't wait for the next episodes.

What a quandary - I'm feeling the same conflicts about this series that I had for the book. It's bleak, it's intense social surgery, it is a dark portent, it was a departure for Margaret Atwood when she wrote it, and, although it should feel completely at home in our current dystopia drenched media-verse, it's just a tad off kilter here, as well. I give it a 7 (good) out of 10, for it truly is good, but it unveils itself slowly, is stark in it's characters and sparse in it's environment. One might say the truth it holds to it's themes is why it is good - I'm still puzzling it out. Fantastic cast, however - some of my favourite performers. So, a hesitant recommendation, set among the high praise of others who have reviewed it on Trakt TV.

A must watch show, just brilliant

Wow, really? Another chance to portray Christians as the evil oppressive type.

boring, slow moving and does not offer more than some shocker moments. the hype for this show is unjustified, imho

Save yourself the trouble and just let a miserable feminist try and convince you she's being oppressed from a pulpit in the public square. The show provides nothing new or exciting either, while the subliminal narrative it attempts to drive forward with gets old and tiresome with the times.

Probably the slowest tv series ever seen. You could easily watch it at 2x speed (even 4x) without realizing the difference.
Some episode are endless... you just go on hoping something exciting will happen....
Overall: incredibly boring!!

I found this show compelling yet challenging. It isn’t an easy watch and often has me feeling crap after watching an episode. So why do I keep watching? This is a question I haven’t been able to answer.

Season one is well written, however it took me most of it to realise it wasn’t going to get to end happily.

Season two opened the world up a bit more but leant heavily into how futile the struggle was. Despair would find a new depth with each episode.

Season three has a greater sense of optimism however, after watching the previous two seasons I feel like I should know better than to hope for a truly positive outcome. Time will tell.

Original, exciting and terrifying.

Series with coherent, connecting episodes.
Storyline quality: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Originality: 10/10
Acting, directing and technical quality: 9/10 (5/10 season 3)
Progression: 5/10 (8/10 season 1)
Consistency (low if mistakes in plot etc.): 9/10
Intensity (cliffhangers, edge of seat and the like): 9/10
Drama: 9/10

Pretty slow some places of the last two seasons, just keep dragging it out with show stoppers and unnatural character twists. This presents scenes that are excruciatingly boring to watch. Also, it seems like they are trying way too hard on the artsy-fancy-pancy in the last season.

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A heart warming tale of a nation coming together for the greater good and some tender love making scenes only add to the Handmaid's new sweet life

It seems like this entire story stems from one woman (Serena) being so baby-crazy that she sells out her entire sex to fundamentalist Christians...

This is why feminism can't be ignored, banalized or underrated. Don't be mistaken because it is classified as a Sci-Fi, this is real life. We are living in 2017, but we all know that, unfortunately, it doesn't feel like it sometimes.

It's a beautiful looking show but it takes forever before anything happens. It's getting harder to watch with each episode. I was hoping season 2 would be better but it's worse.

I wonder if the show tries to be a visual dissertation on ethics, sociology, economics, political issues or what, because it fails miserably to go beyond a less than failed and simplistic reinterpretation of a few well known periods of human history: the slavery period in the southern US, the various Jew pogroms – particularly the holocaust, and the eugenics movements in the US and Nazi Germany. Their efforts to create a new reality failed miserably becoming just a caricature without much sense of aforementioned periods.

Nor I understand the extremely low pace it has with storyline so obvious. I only watched a pair of seasons because my partner “liked” it, don’t ask me why. By the way the purple gowns drive me crazy, they all seem cardinals.

For me it isn’t worth the time I wasted watching it. I don’t about the book, but for what I watched of the tv-serie I would most probably file it in the trashcan (with everything else that I should never have read).

Considering, well, the state of the country and the world, The Handmaid’s Tale was a wrecking ball coming straight for your gut. Coupled with the fact that it’s set in Cambridge/Boston, where I live, it felt genuinely terrifying to me. I had read the book back in high school, but had forgotten much of the details. Incredible performances (Alexis Bledel and Samira Wiley!!!) really make the terror of it all really sink in.