The app for independent voices
I wrote a review of the Handmaid's Tale for IMDB a few years ago. I closed my IMDB account when they started censoring my reviews (of "Clarkson's Farm" and "The Harder They Come") but I've preserved it on my web page:
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Sad masochistic fantasy
I watched only the first season. It appears to be a fantasy to give masochists excitement. The lead character makes almost no effort to escape from her situation as she is put through various torments and increasingly ridiculous rituals. As usual for these interminable TV things, most of the plot points from the first episode were forgotten about within a few episodes.
If you enjoy fantasising about being tormented you might enjoy this. If you'd like to see a character with a certain amount of spirit this is not for you.
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I seem to remember writing something about hoping the lead character would do something, anything, to escape from her awful situation, such as carving a gun from a bar of soap or something, but that point never came. But that version of the review seems to have got lost when I recovered the reviews from my mail archive.