• The first three episodes of season 4 of

    The Handmaid's Tale 

    are available this Wednesday on OCS.

  • The first three seasons were seen as a mirror of Trump's tenure.

  • Is the series still relevant in post-Trump America still struggling with the pandemic?

In just three seasons, the television adaptation of

The Handmaid's Tale

, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, has become a cultural phenomenon. Launched in 2017 at the start of Donald Trump's tenure, the Hulu series has been seen by many commentators as a metaphor for America's anxieties. In the midst of the #MeToo movement, the costumes of the scarlet maids have become the symbol of the struggle of feminists against the patriarchal system. But the world of 2021 is different from the one it was in 2017. While the first three episodes of this fourth season are uploaded on OCS this Wednesday and broadcast this Thursday at 8:45 pm on OCS Max,

The Handmaid's Tale

is it? still relevant in post-Trump America still struggling with the pandemic?

Season 3 of

The Handmaid's Tale

ended with a glimmer of hope.

June and other maids managed to escape 86 children from Gilead to Canada.

A final which had given rise to the spectator's hope for a season 4, under the sign of rebellion.

"We now turn to the things that present themselves in the post-Trump era"

“A big part of this season is waiting for things to get back to normal and asking yourself, 'why aren't they getting back to normal?'

", Announced the creator and showrunner of the series, Bruce Miller, during a TCA panel, relayed by

The Hollywood Reporter.

He added: "We now turn to the things that present themselves in the post-Trump era.

"

At the start of Season 4, we find June (Elisabeth Moss), seriously injured, and the other renegade maids in an isolated farm, run by Mrs Keyes (Mckenna Grace), the "wife" of an old and overwhelmed commander, who has already suffered numerous sexual abuses at the age of 14.

For her part, Aunt Lydia must be held to account after the escape.

The Waterfords (Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski) are still in detention in Toronto.

In Canada, ex-Martha Rita (Amanda Brugel), Emily (Alexis Bledel), Luke (OT Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley) work to ensure that the children saved by June find a home and try to heal their deep trauma.

"Gilead is in you," Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) seems to echo.

"We seem to reflect the very problems of life"

Once recovered, June launches with the help of Mrs. Keyes, gifted in poisoning, and a Jezebel (a prostitute) in a resistance operation, which will turn into a fiasco.

Several commanders are dead and June, who has become the public enemy n ° 1, will soon be captured, and find herself, once again, in the jails of Gilead.

"We seem to reflect the very issues of life, security and human rights with which we struggle every day on the streets of this country," Warren Littlefield, producer of

The Handmaid's Tale

, promised

.

In light of these first three episodes, this season 4 promises to be even bloodier, more violent and darker than the previous ones.

Would the series stand still?

"Gilead cares about power"

Not exactly. Post-Trump America is not the one Democrats dreamed of. The Trump era has left America more divided than ever, and the series captures the fractures of American society. "Gilead doesn't care about children, Gilead cares about power," admits Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford). New, the harsh reality of Gilead now appears without artifice.

Closed borders between the United States, where the Republic of Gilead is located, and Canada, wearing of masks, police surveillance, violence against women still increased… If the first three seasons of

The Handmaid's Tale

resonated with Trump's America , this fourth season also resonates sadly with our sad time of pandemic.

And if this season appears even more cruel, it is because it shows a world after which the tomorrows are far from singing.

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