The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Adventureland

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Gilead versus America. Theocracy versus Democracy. Serena versus June. The longer this series goes on, the less these characters resemble real women than mascots for their cartoonishly simplified politics. It makes a kind of sense then that “Devotion” sees them each running around their own personal Disneylands — theme park renditions of the real worlds that the people they used to be once lived in.

For Serena, that’s New Bethlehem, which has about as much...