There’s a lot of world-building across the season’s slow-moving ten episodes, which feels like a waste given how familiar even casual TV watchers are with the original series.

I still plan on giving it a watch, but that’s a bummer.

I thought Handmaid’s Tale told a great story, even if it went on a little long. I had hoped this series would be telling a new or different story that we hadn’t seen before.

The end of our previous story looked like it was setting up a future that needed and was in the process of being fixed. With Aunt Lydia returning I thought we might get a long redemption story (redemption is probably the wrong word, but a character truly trying to make up for their mistakes.)