TOMATOMETER
Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.
Episode Info
Cast
as Offred
as Commander Fred Waterford
as Serena Joy
as Moira
as Luke
as Ofglen
as Nick
as Janine
as Rita
as Aunt Lydia
Birth Day Photos
Critic reviews for Birth Day
The moment plays equally devastating and funny, but that's why I love the show's use of humor and music: if you don't have a gallows humor you don't have anything.
The real pleasure of this episode was seeing Joseph Fiennes sink his teeth into a meaty role.
No, I actually mean that: The producers used the song from The Breakfast Club and it's perfect.
While I'd love to envision Moira and Ofglen and any other Gilead escapee possibly rallying help up north, you just know they're probably enduring something painful somewhere awful.
"Birth" is, as you might have guessed, about birth. But it also gives us insight into how dire the infertility crisis was before society went completely topsy turvy.
That's the mark of a great adaptation like this one - to make it feel as though you're experiencing a familiar story as new.
Discussion Forum
Discuss The Handmaid's Tale on our TV talk forum!