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The first time one hears that scientists have brought back the dire wolf can be a little surreal. While this apex predator of the Ice Age, a North American legend hailing from the Pleistocene epoch, is believed to have breathed its last 10,000 years ago, it now walks the Earth

Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 episode 3 “Devotion”.  So close! For years now, Moira’s – and to a lesser extent, Luke’s – main job on The Handmaid’s Tale has been to wear a knitted beanie while looking concerned about June. Then, it finally looked as though Samira Wiley and O-T

Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 episode 2 “Exile”. Emotionally, The Handmaid’s Tale rarely misses, but structurally, it isn’t always what you’d call elegant. “Exile” didn’t so much progress the plot as reverse it. In the season five finale, June and Serena boarded a train to the future, but now they’re

Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 episode 1. Hallelujah! And again, hallelujah! Something unambiguously good has happened to June Osborne. After Canada turned out not to be the promised land, she was forced apart from Luke again, and her escape chute slammed her with pinpoint accuracy into the person she’d spent

Warning: contains finale spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season five. After June and the other formerly enslaved Handmaids tore Fred Waterford limb from limb at the end of season four, season five was all about June v Serena. (June confessed to the murder but because it had taken place in