BACK in Gilead for a new series of The Handmaid’s Tale (Channel 4, Sunday), and boy don’t we know it. After a quick recap we’re in a barn with a wounded June, our Joan of Arc, as her fellow handmaids attempt to sear a bullet wound closed with what looks like a red hot poker. Over this gruesome scene plays Say a Little Prayer. Blood, hope and sublime tunes: what more could one ask for? Those who gave up on this adaptation-plus of Margaret Atwood’s novel because it was too bleak were probably not going to be tempted back by this first episode. It was set on a farm for a start, which is never a good sign. I did laugh when one character named her pig Mr Darcy, though I had a bad feeling it might not end well for our Austenian porker.
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