While the first season of "The Handmaid's Tale" is absolutely brilliant and captivating, season 4 is left on its own to come up with a compelling storyline. Yes, in certain respects it succeeds, however, for most of season 4, slow-mo fillers are used to stretch the running time, as an attempt to disguise that the creators are truly running out of material. The slow stares while driving a car, the slow-motion walks, the sunshine glowing through a window, the hazy ambience of Canadian skyscrapers - several minutes of fillers are used without anything really happening. When things do happen, some events get silly and some subplots abruptly get abandoned, including the most interesting part with Esther, Janine, and Aunt Lydia.