Handmaid's Tale. EPISODE 9 (season 3). Channel 4, 04/08/19. UK pace. NO SPOILERS!

[OriginofSpecies]

This is the thread for Episode 9 (season 3) of The Handmaid's Tale.

We are watching on Channel 4, UK pace and have only seen episodes 1 - 8 so far.

Please, NO SPOILERS.

I can't believe we're up to Episode 9 already! I hope it all starts coming together in the next five episodes.

[Crinkle77]

Checking in for tonight. Please be good. Only two more episodes for this series so the plot has surely got to move on a bit.

[Roussette]

Hi, and thanks for the thread

[BesselVanDerKolk]

Think there are 13 episodes this series @Crinkle77 as @OriginofSpecies said. Hence the sllooowwww pace I guess!

[Crinkle77]

Really? I thought there was only 10.

[ZazieTheCat]

Hello.

Human incubator time.

[Ontheboardwalk]

I’m getting annoyed now. How can a shot to the shoulder create brain bleeding?

And surely a handmaiden has other 'duties' to perform rather than kneeling at the end of s bed?

[whenskiesaregrey]

So, is she losing her mind?!

[Paradyning]

Surely that's a waste of ovations if she just knelt there for months.

[notgivinga]

This is getting really stupid now why would they leave her in there as everyone knows she hates her. Unless she's hallucinating.

[ZazieTheCat]

Oh, poor Janine.

[NigellasGuest]

I thought Janine was stabbed?

[DrinkReprehensibly]

I think Janine was hit in the face with a tin of beans or similar.

[ZazieTheCat]

Smacked cross the face with a can I think. Must have opened her eye-plucked-out wound.

[Crinkle77]

Please let there be more to this episode than that hospital room. Interesting how the doctor asked how the patient was and was referring to the baby.

[Destinysdaughter]

Just realised who that rather ayyractive Doctor is. It's the actor who played Billy in Ally McBeal!

[GileadWivesAreFashionIcons]

I presume she’s been left in there as a form of punishment? AL is not happy with her recent behaviour but she can’t do anything to her physically in case she’s needed on TV again.
Seems to be working.

[youngestisapsycho]

It’s boring...

[DrinkReprehensibly]

You'd think there would be cameras on the hospital room.

[Invisimamma]

Yawn!

[IfIShouldFallFromGraceWithGod]

It is boring

[OytheBumbler]

I'm finding I'm losing all sympathy for any of the characters this season.

[Maneandfeathers]

I think I’m going to stop watching now.

Totally bored of this series and the Hannah story isn’t going anywhere

[DrinkReprehensibly]

I think pp are right. This might turn out to be largely a bottle episode, all in one room.

[TheSpottedZebra]

She can't make Janine kill her!

[ZazieTheCat]

It’s role reversal for June and Janine, compared to on the bridge.