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The Handmaid's Tale – Season 1, Episode 9 The Bridge

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Offred goes on a dangerous mission for the resistance; Janine receives a new posting; Serena Joy has suspicions about the Commander's fidelity.
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The Handmaid's Tale — Season 1, Episode 9

The Handmaid's Tale — Season 1, Episode 9

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There are few surprises in "The Bridge," making the inevitability of its horrors all the more haunting.

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Bruce Miller

Creator

Elisabeth Moss

Offred

Joseph Fiennes

Commander Waterford

Yvonne Strahovski

Serena Joy

Madeline Brewer

Janine

Ann Dowd

Aunt Lydia
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Anne Cohen Refinery29 09/22/2017
Pour one out for poor Janine. "The Bridge," which climaxes on an actual bridge, is a swan song to Gilead's most damaged and endearing handmaid. Go to Full Review Jessica Derschowitz Entertainment Weekly 09/22/2017
B+
The journey into this world has been both addictive and scarily relevant, and it does feel like we're building to a boiling point. Go to Full Review Caroline Framke Vox 09/22/2017
I think "The Bridge" was a necessary episode -- a bridge, if you will, between the first season and whatever the second is going to be. Go to Full Review Andrea Thompson The Young Folks 02/05/2019
7/10
It's good that The Handmaid's Tale is going back to basics, even if it stumbles a bit yet again in the episode The Bridge. Go to Full Review Genevieve Valentine Vice 07/02/2018
Unexpected intimacies can shake someone's whole life; the isolation that defines Gilead makes everyone into a spy. Go to Full Review Carol Pinchefsky Syfy Wire 06/05/2018
Have I mentioned how wonderfully Joseph Fiennes has played this contemptible character? Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Episode Info

Synopsis Offred goes on a dangerous mission for the resistance; Janine receives a new posting; Serena Joy has suspicions about the Commander's fidelity.
Creator
Bruce Miller
Executive Producer
Bruce Miller, Warren Littlefield, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Ilene Chaiken
Screenwriter
Bruce Miller
Network
Hulu
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 7, 2017