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A movie as snug and sweet and congenitally British as a tea cozy,The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyalso feels like it could be defined by a word from their Scandinavian neighbors:hygge. The Danes have turned the concept of curated hominess and warm socks into a sort of lifestyle cottage industry over the last few years, and now director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral,Mona Lisa Smile) has manifested it in a movie the kind you dont so much watch as wear like a slanket....

It turns its cramped, claustrophobic confines not only into a virtue, but its biggest white-knuckle strength. He has little compassion and even less patience. In fact, you could say itisthe game. Credit: Nikolaj Moller/Magnolia Pictures Near the end of his night shift, Asger receives a call from a woman in distress. Her name is Iben. Asger is supposed to just route her emergency through the proper channels and move on to the next call....

Understandably, following up such an acclaimed run can feel a bit daunting. The biggest barrier of season 2 was season 1, showrunner Bruce Miller tells EW. You sort of intimidate yourself. Take Five/Hulu But at a certain point, you cant spend all your time second-guessing things. Instead, you just have to remember to try and tell a good story. The EP is reluctant to give too much away. Take Five/Hulu...

Catch the full episode ofBingeworthyhereand on PeopleTV. Go toPEOPLE.com/PeopleTV, or download the free app on your smart TV, mobile, and web devices. AsBingeworthyhost Jessica Shaw puts it, 2017 was quite a year. With so many ups and downs, many turned to television for comfort, understanding, and escapism. SoBingeworthynames its picks for the two television shows that epitomized the year. Host Lola Ogunnaike chooses HulusThe Handmaids Tale. Art can truly provoke change....

This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes ofThe Handmaids Taleseason 3. Already watched the first three episodes ofThe Handmaids Taleseason 3? Check out their juiciest quotes below, broken down by the most burning questions raised. Credit: Elly Dassas/Hulu season 3 is really about fighting. Now shes trying to say, I know I can survive. Now what can I do? That was the biggest challenge. Its not a montage sequence of showing her being radicalized....

Even for myself, it was very hard. In your heart youre like, How the hell could she go? but then, if she stays, youre like, How the hell could she stay? Credit: Elly Dassas/Hulu But stay June did, andnow shes on a mission. You have to fight fire with fire, Moss teases. Thats become [Junes] journey in season 3. To fight against the people she has to fight, she has to become more like them....

Miller told EW ahead of the panel. She was happy for us to have our own plan, he shared. How did this happen? Credit: Take Five/Hulu How did we go from what looks like America to Gilead?' says Littlefield, who promises that flashbacks will unveil how it all happened. The theme of motherhood is very, very powerful and important for year two, Littlefield tells EW. She seeks freedom for herself, for her unborn child, and for Hannah....

Mosss portrayal of the handmaid Offred/June on the series has won her accolades from critics and her costars. Shes such a superb heroine for today, says Cherry Jones, who plays Junes mother this season. Her soul feels different in everything she does. Sara Hirakawa and Mark Williams for EW The place changes you no matter what you have a go at do, explains Moss. In the case of Moira you have been changed forever....

But its endingJune sacrificing her freedom to fight for Hannah’swhile affecting, doesn’t feel earned. Grief hangs over “The Word” from beginning to end. It seems her loss has been particularly difficult for Rita. Credit: George Kraychyk/Hulu “I treated her like s,” she says, anguished. “I should have tried to help her.” But Serena won’t go there. “She will obey His word.” June offers a sharp retort: “She cannotreadHis word.” She is afraid for Nicole’s future....

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for season 2 AND season 3 ofThe Handmaids Tale. Read at your own risk! She was completely up for it. Credit: George Kraychyk/Hulu; Inset: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Maybe thats anenormousspoiler I just gave you, he says. Still, he points out that viewers could have gathered on their own that Aunt Lydia survived Emilys attack. The final shot of Aunt Lydia was carefully framed to convey how she could have survived the beating....

“I loved seeing my mother like that,” June narrates. (Well, she was right about that.) In the flashbacks, we see how the disapprovalthe disappointmentgnawed at June. Credit: George Kraychyk/Hulu There’s precious little time to say goodbye. Then, another man arrives to pick her up, named Omar. But then, he stops. He apologizes and indicates he needs to leave herpresumably for dead. June refuses to be left behind. She begs him, slamming on his car window, to take her with him....

But Lydia proves to be adept in other ways. June eventually agrees to play along, if only because the alternativeimprisonment, and then deathis hardly preferable. Really, it’s to abandon the chaos and despair he’s helped sow in his own home. Credit: Hulu She tries to keep the peace as the cold war between Serena and June escalates. June interrupts, speaking for the first time and stunning the crowd. “I felt the baby kick for the first time last night,” she blurts out....

Indeed, rather shrewdly, the framing gear of “Postpartum” is one of light bookending darkness. Baby Hollynamed Nicole by Serena and Fredis now in the hands of the Waterfords. June is once again under Aunt Lydia’s supervision, pumping breast milk from a distance. Credit: George Kraychyk/Hulu Serena, unsurprisingly, is finding this unconventionalto say the leastexperience of motherhood a little challenging. (Let’s not forget that intense fight from last week.) But problems quickly arise....