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It is impossible to really talk about season 4 without mentioning spoilers because a lot happens in this season, despite only being ten episodes long. So for that reason, I am giving a spoiler warning for the entire season.
This season, oh boy, a lot happens. June makes it to Canada, but many of her handmaid friends die. Janine gets captured and sent back to Gilead (we also see more of Janine’s backstory). Ms. Keyes (a wife they run into in the countryside) gets captured and turns into a handmaid. June is involved with the Canadian legal system while the legal system is trying to get information out of Fred (he meets his demise in the final episode of the season). We have Luke trying to hold down his family the best he can, despite the trauma that June is currently trying to process. Serena Joy also learns that she is pregnant with a son and is trying to deal with that while also being in the holding cell in Canada. Nick can be seen a handful of times in this season as well.
Overall, I am satisfied with this season. The focus is still on June. According to the behind-the-scenes people for this season, they wanted to take this season in a completely different direction, but COVID caused huge problems with production (being shut down and everything else). While we will never know what exactly they had in mind for this, we got this, and…
