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28 Apr, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Many critics have abandoned Hulu's drama #TheHandmaidsTale for pulling its heroine back into hell again and again.

But here's why @LorraineAli hasn't given up on it yet latimes.com/entertainment-…
Hulu’s hour-long drama, created by Bruce Miller and based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, deviated from the book after its first season
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Here's our 📺 review of #TheHandmaidsTale ahead of the first season's release (2017)
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And at the end of the second season, @LorraineAli praised it, writing:

"It's the show’s knack for foreshadowing recent news events that will no doubt follow it to the Emmy nominations" (2018)
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For Season 3, resistance was the common theme.

The characters had spent the last few years assembling in secret, mapping out their plans for survival in basements and more
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But Season 4 is still replete with even more pain and misery than any one woman should ever have to endure.

And many critics have asked — and answered by their own abandoning of the show: Are viewers still invested in the battle?
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.@LorraineAli says she's stuck with the show this long because it captures the trauma of a country at war from the viewpoint of those we rarely see on the news in real-life combat zones: women
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.@LorraineAli "It’s understandable why former fans of #TheHandmaidsTale checked out of the series by the end of Season Three. Our country was a mess, so why watch it fall apart on TV?"

More on why this critic keeps coming back for more 👇latimes.com/entertainment-…

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