Reviews for Season 4 are rolling in ahead of its debut on Hulu this Wednesday, and even as the series tries to head in new directions, critics are still very much divided over whether or not the show is able to break out of its old cycles. For some, the nature of June's situation hasn't evolved enough to make the show feel like it's growing, as
The Handmaid's Tale continues to fall back on tried and true storytelling resets.
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The Handmaid's Tale is solidly entrenched in the things it does well — with Elisabeth Moss' performance as an unimpeachable centerpiece — and most frustrating in its bleak and repetitive rhythms," Daniel Fienberg of THR wrote. "It becomes harder and harder to trust that even when big things happen on