10 Reasons Hulu Is the Best Streaming Service Right Now

3. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Worth the Price Alone

Speaking of original content, Hulu’s slow and steady approach to original content is starting to yield palpable results. This award season, Hulu’s original series The Handmaid’s Tale netted 13 Emmy nominations, including the coveted Outstanding Drama Series. The dystopian sci-fi series finds Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss as a fertile woman in an infertile world that’s been overrun by a militant religious government. Pressed into service as glorified breeding cattle, Moss and her fellow handmaids are forced to endure bizarre atrocities as they try to survive in a strange, cold world. The Handmaid’s Tale is, bar none, the most intense hour on television. Every episode of its freshman season is charged with an electricity that not even HBO’s acclaimed Game of Thrones can match. It’s poignant, disturbing, addictive, and unlike anything else on TV.