“Nothing can be more powerful than a teenage girl.”
This bold statement, which concludes the first season of The Testaments, a YA sequel to the Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, offers a ray of hope after 10 chilling episodes of dystopian unease in Gilead, a perverted nightmare version of America. Out of sight are the Handmaids, those unwilling vessels of fertility whose unholy ordeal was the focus of the original series. Instead, we’re introduced several years later to a younger generation, “the most godly of girls,” the pampered daughters of powerful Commanders being groomed as future brides and, if very lucky, mothers.
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