The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025)
10/10
Did not need to sew my mouth to leave me speechless
16 August 2022
For starters, i watch promising TV alone, so i can let myself be caught by a good story with no reserve and no distraction. This is important here because the story has enough intensity to distort the perception of time. And it's a real dive. The pacing that may seem slow if you're on the surface is actually impeccable when you are under the spell.

Every second of it, i spent bracing myself with both dread and hope for the next second, the next pronounced word the next piece of this world disclosed, wondering how little it would take nowadays for even a western society to fall into this nightmare, for decent people to become blind to their own cruelty, how hard it would be to reinvent one's own values to be able to endure.

Every episode left me exhausted, I couldn't even binge it as I needed to digest a bit between episodes.

Since then Moss has featured in many other shows, and aesthetic shots from above have been used by other productions too, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, so it might hinder a bit the novelty aspects for newer viewers, but damn, this was quite a journey.
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