Well, this season has been a true cinematic marvel.
Marvel because 1) the quality of the writing has been dropping precipitously, with plot twists that are hard to swallow and and incongruous character development, all just to keep June in the Waterford Residence and maintain the conflict between her and Serena forever ablaze.
And marvel because 2) the acting, which was already mind-boggling, has become so OUTWORLDLY good that the actresses are capable of pulling off all of the writers' whims with such preternatural ease as to make each and every stupid writer stunt utterly believable. Just look at the number of Emmy nominations the show gets in the supporting actress category!!! (Fyi, my money is on Strahovski this year).
But the ending of the last episode... That ending and everything it implies... I don't think any show can survive the direction The Handmaid's Tale is taking no matter how good the acting, how talented the cast. That last look, after she puts on the hood...: "I'll take take you down, Gilead (with my bare hands). I'm a Jedi, I'm a Superwoman, nothing can touch me." Whaaaat???
I don't think the show will stoop as low as to picture June as a sort of a ninja-like Joan of Arc, but I think this is the general direction we are heading. A lot more like a cartoon, a lot more like Marvel's Universe than the dead serious and utterly believable show of the first season. A waste, really.