a b Patten, Dominic (July 2, 2020). " 'The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Other Cast & EPs On Dystopian Leadership & Change". Deadline. Archived from the original on May 7, 2022 . Retrieved May 7, 2022. Moss notes of her June character and the pivotal role she has taken this past season in the Mayday resistance movement against totalitarian and theonomic government of Gilead. a b Petski, Denise (December 10, 2020). " 'The Handmaid's Tale' Renewed For Season 5 By Hulu". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020 . Retrieved December 10, 2020. McNary, Dave (November 25, 2019). " 'Legion' Leads TV Nominations for American Society of Cinematographers Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on November 27, 2019 . Retrieved November 27, 2019. Greg Bryk as Commander Ray Cushing (season 2), a fellow Commander who later replaces Commander Pryce's position.

Duff, Anna (February 3, 2020). "What's going on with The Handmaid's Tale season 4?". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on May 1, 2020 . Retrieved February 11, 2020. The handmaid’s costume has been adopted by women in many countries as a symbol of protest about various issues having to do with the requisitioning of women’s bodies by the state,” she told the Guardian. Turchiano, Danielle (March 10, 2019). "SXSW: Elisabeth Moss Talks Filming 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 3 in D.C." Variety. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019 . Retrieved May 7, 2019.

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Reid, Rebecca (May 29, 2018). "Why I'm turning off the Handmaid's Tale and its needless torture porn". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on July 26, 2018 . Retrieved July 25, 2018. Douthat, Ross (May 24, 2017). " 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Ours". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019 . Retrieved July 28, 2017. Now, in the era of the Trump administration, liberal TV watchers find a perverse sort of comfort in the horrific alternate reality of the Republic of Gilead, where a cabal of theonomist Christians have established a totalitarian state that forbids women to read, sets a secret police to watch their every move and deploys them as slave-concubines to childless elites. a b "The Handmaid's Tale: Season 5". Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 11, 2022 . Retrieved September 11, 2022. Douthat, Ross (May 24, 2017). " 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Ours". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019 . Retrieved July 28, 2017. The first situates the Gilead regime's quest to control the means of reproduction in the context of an enormous fertility collapse, caused by the combination of environmental catastrophe and rampant S.T.D.s. Maas, Jennifer (June 22, 2020). " 'Handmaid's Tale' Season 4 Pushed to 2021". The Wrap. Archived from the original on June 23, 2020 . Retrieved June 23, 2020.Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford, Fred's wife, and a former conservative cultural activist. She appears to have accepted her new role in a society that she helped create. She is poised and deeply religious, but capable of great cruelty and is often callous to June. She is desperate to become a mother.

Bennett, Tara (September 13, 2022). "The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Review – Episodes 1–8". IGN. Archived from the original on September 13, 2022 . Retrieved September 14, 2022. When you're a Handmaid's Tale fan, it can be difficult to stop thinking about the world of Gilead. You might want to stop thinking about it. It's a cold, dark, quiet, and unbelievably frighteningworld. So yeah, it would be good to leave Gilead behind when the last episode of Handmaid's Tale season three airs. But the red robes and white bonnets still haunt Handmaid's Tale fans when we think about the small freedoms of our daily lives. In 2017, handmaids marched on Capitol Hill, Washington, in protest at the Republican healthcare bill which was seen to threaten women’s bodily autonomy. And in the same year, handmaids entered the Texas senate house to protest abortion-related legislation. Meanwhile, protesters against Trump’s 2018 and 2019 visits to the UK also sported handmaid costumes. Premiada no Globo de Ouro, 'Handmaid's tale' estreia no Brasil pelo Paramount em março". O Globo (in Portuguese). February 8, 2018. Archived from the original on August 3, 2018 . Retrieved August 3, 2018.a b "The Handmaid's Tale: Season 3". Metacritic. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019 . Retrieved June 5, 2019. de Moraes, Lisa (January 14, 2018). "Marisa Tomei To Guest on Hulu's' Dystopian 'The Handmaid's Tale' ". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 14, 2018 . Retrieved January 14, 2018.

The Handmaid’s tale was being really lived out in Missouri, with those legislatures trying to take the agency of those Medicaid patients away,” Mead said. Amanda Brugel as Rita Blue (season 2–present, recurring season 1), a housekeeper at the Waterford house, who becomes one of June's closest allies. She had a son named Matthew, who died fighting in the civil war when he was 19 years old. [15] Christine Ko as Lily (season 5), a former Martha who is now a leader in the Canada-based resistance movement. [28]As 21st century women, we struggle to understand the anchoritic lifestyle and we see it as disempowering and symptomatic of a society which despises women. Geraghty, Jim (April 27, 2017). " 'What Fans of The Handmaid's Tale Prefer To Ignore". National Review. Archived from the original on January 29, 2019 . Retrieved July 7, 2018. On May 2, 2018, Hulu renewed the series for a third season, [56] which premiered on June 5, 2019. [57] Season 3 started production in Toronto in October 2018. [58] [59] Scenes for season 3 were also filmed in Cambridge and Hamilton, Ontario as well as in Washington, D.C. [60] [61] [62] Season 3 saw the show's long-serving Director of Photography, Colin Watkinson, make his directorial debut with the episode "Unknown Caller". Cambridge, Ontario was nominated by the Location Managers Guild International for "Outstanding Film Office" for their work on this season. This was the first time that a Canadian Film Office was nominated for this honor. [63] On July 26, 2019, the series was renewed for a fourth season. [5] Season 4, consisting of 10 episodes, began production in March 2020, with Elisabeth Moss filming her directorial debut, but work had to be halted after only a few weeks, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [64] [65] In June 2020, Hulu announced that the fourth season would premiere in 2021. [66] Production on season 4 resumed in September 2020 [18] and wrapped on February 25, 2021, with Moss having directed three episodes. [67]