Pointlessly dark, and ridiculously predictable. When it isn't predictable, it has scenes created for pure shock and awe, that have little to no relevance to the story. After you have moved forward in the story, they feel it necessary to show the same happenings and scenes multiple times, and not in the standard "last week on Handmaid's Tale" way, but in the middle of the episode. The main actress, has a facial expression like she just smelled raw sewage, always. It is literally as uncomfortable as watching a parent beat on their child in the grocery store.