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Critics Consensus: Levity is found in the form of perfectly suited -- and surprisingly humorous -- song choices that help "Birth Day" overcome the hopelessness of Gilead.
Critic Consensus: Levity is found in the form of perfectly suited -- and surprisingly humorous -- song choices that help "Birth Day" overcome the hopelessness of Gilead.
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.
Sometimes you're in the horror movie; sometimes, nobody wins.
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.
Atwood has often said that she didn't write fantasy in The Handmaid's Tale-everything that happens in this story happens, or has happened, or is happening, to women in the real world. This is a horror story about slut-shaming.
"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.
A few series have pulled off second episodes stronger than their very strong pilots -- The Americans and Breaking Bad come to mind -- and now The Handmaid's Tale joins that group.
After two episodes, The Handmaid's Tale has shown that it excels at placing the horrific, the surreal and the achingly mundane side-by-side.
The arrival of a new baby is a joyful thing -- at least until you remember what kind of a world we're in now. This is Gilead, remember? We can't just have nice things.