Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' season 2 has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, topping its Emmy-winning debut season

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April 25, 2018 4:02 PM

Hulu's Emmy-winning drama series "The Handmaid's Tale" has a 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its second season, which premieres Wednesday.

Extending beyond the Margaret Atwood dystopian novel that its first season was adapted from, "The Handmaid's Tale's" second season is getting laudatory reviews.

Hulu's Emmy-winning drama series, "The Handmaid's Tale," has a 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its second season, which premieres its first two episodes on Wednesday.

Extending beyond the plot of the Margaret Atwood dystopian novel that its first season was adapted from, "The Handmaid's Tale's" second season is getting laudatory reviews for doubling down on the series' powerful bleakness and gripping drama.

The first season of "The Handmaid's Tale" received a 95% "Fresh" rating, along with eight Primetime Emmy awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, making it the first show released by a streaming service to win the top Emmy award.

"The Handmaid's Tale" follows the plight of Elisabeth Moss as June, a "handmaid" servant who is forced into sexual servitude by the government of a totalitarian, near-future United States called Gilead. Its second season expands beyond June's perspective to depict more of the vast horrors that show's world entails.

The Boston Globe's Matthew Gilbert had high praise for the show's second season in a review, writing, "I

Watch "The Handmaid's Tale" here.

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