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Every revolution starts with a single act of defiance, but in the case of The servant's tale Season 3 begins with several small acts of challenge that have little narrative weight before events begin to take shape and several episodes take place. But despite a slow start, The servant's tale shows sparks of promise that could ignite the fire behind a show that began to flare up.

The servant's tale It is a series that prides itself on denying catharsis to its audience. In its gripping, thrilling first season, the award-winning Emmy series has had a powerful cultural impact with its flawless depiction of a dystopian future as similar to our present. But the second season of division proved that it was not a formula that could be maintained for long periods without tiring its devout audience. Tirelessly overwhelming The servant's tale Season 2 was a frustrating half-action exercise that was running. While the third season does not solve all the problems of the second season, its pbadage from sneaky emotional torture to a fast political thriller is promising.

The end of season 2 of the famous Hulu series promised a revolution led by Elisabeth Moss"June's longtime handmaid, who missed out on Gilead, would likely shatter the fundamentalist regime from within, but in the six episodes of of criticism, she only spilled a few stones. Margaret AtwoodThe 1985 novel was never intended to organize a revolution, but to examine the silent suffering of women ready to survive in a totalitarian state that calls them subhuman. But the Hulu series had to reconcile the allegorical content of the book with the frame of a story that will allow viewers to watch without sinking into deep depression.

I must admit that I was hesitant to watch the third season of The servant's tale, while the series felt more relevant than ever. Without a ray of light at the end of the tunnel, the show is dangerously close to nihilism – something that you would not particularly like to see today, even in a performance that is intended to be an edifying account that comments on the current state of the art. of gender. Although I'm not sure if The servant's tale Season 3 offers this glimmer of hope: the first six episodes try to remedy the overwhelming sadness of last season.

The first episode begins just after the end of season 2, when June stretches her baby Nicole to Emily (Alexis Bledel) and decides to stay in Gilead for some unknown reason. But if it is easy to badume, in his provocative expression, that June is considering a revolution, it is not so triumphant. Back from truck on the run at Gilead, June is picked up by Bradley WhitfordCommander Joseph Lawrence, who orchestrated the flight of his maid Emily. She begs him to take her to his daughter Hannah, whom she had briefly gathered during the last season. Impressed by his panting attitude, he took her to the family that had hosted Hannah, now pbaded by Agnes, but June could not see her daughter until she was captured and brought back to The Waterford again.

For the first two episodes of season 3, The servant's tale is in the grip of the frustrating wheel rotation that characterizes season 2. The show is resistant to change, to the point of boring the logic of the world, especially when it comes to June and all her indiscretions – despite her multiple escapes, its status remains largely the same. But slowly, the series begins to emerge from its torpor and evolve into a more dynamic and intriguing show. This is largely thanks to the subplots of supportive players like Bledel, who look less tired, and every minute that pbades, and to Whitford, who has now become the main member of the cast after having made his debut as enigmatic commander Lawrence last season. Whitford commands and convincingly in every scene where he appears, offering an interesting new film to June, once she's rebadigned to her household. Their verbal sparring helps drive the first, slower episodes, though June turns out to be an increasingly frustrating protagonist.

The arc of June is not an anarchic ploy for freedom, it is a family affair. Determined to pursue her daughter, June continues her cat and mouse games with Waterford, Nick (Max Minghella) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) Who are equal in turn badual and paternal, but especially serials. The complicated dynamics between June and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) continues to transform and metabolize in a fascinating way, and Strahovski is unavoidable as a woman caught between her maternal instinct and her selfish needs. Although Moss is incredibly fantastic in June, his grief and rage just repressed being fully exposed this season, I wonder if the series suffers from always being deeply rooted in its perspective.

Maybe that's why Bledel proves once again to be the MVP of the series. Emily's flight to Canada and the union with Luke (O. T. Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley) offers a captivating look at what happens "after", what Bledel achieves with a nuanced and devastating performance. When we have potentially too many months of June, we have too little Bledel, who has dropped him from the park in all his scenes.

But fortunately, the story of June does not remain motionless. In Commander Lawrence's house, June falls on a network of Marthas that suggests a deeper resistance and even manages to launch into his own subterfuge. But the transition from the series to the political thriller is slow and these brief advances towards a revolution have nothing to envy to another conflict between June and Waterford – which open the door to a surprisingly intriguing place among the guests. Christpher Meloni as a senior commander. But this new confrontation between June and her old household suggests that the series finally defies her own resistance to change, while June's mistakes come home.

In the first episode of season 3, there is a picture of Fireford's house engulfed by fire, on which June insists. "On fire, you will take revenge," June says with a smirk. It's a little subtle suggestion The servant's tale burn everything on the ground and start again. It's not exactly what the season does, but the first half of the season unleashes a rush of energy into the show – an energy that is finally starting to get past the depressed rut The servant's tale it was found in.

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The servant's tale season 3 debuts on Hulu on June 5, 2019.

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