The Handmaids tale

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Anyone else planning on watching this at 9pm on channel 4?

This is so hard to watch.

Jesus, this is frightening to watch

Very frightening.

Very disturbing to watch.

The attitude towards homosexuality matches that currently in Chechnya

My Dh has been very very quiet watching this episode. He'd dismissed it as rubbish when we watched the first episode. Absolutely terrifying to think this could happen. Best drama series I've watched!

It's horrible and very different to the book. I don't like it.

Poor Offglen.

Wasn't expecting this...not with what really happened

This is more distressing

Timely given the DUP

In fact I've just turned it off

Poor ofglen and Martha

This happens in the world now. And we fucking trade with countries like that.

LGBT rights around the world

www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/?utm_term=.652e9e616ecd

I don't think it's that different to the book. I think it fleshed out the reality of it for women.

Timely given the DUP

I was just thinking that.

It's chilling how this parallels the real world sometimes

I don't think it's that different to the book. I think it fleshed out the reality of it for women.

It is a tad. Yes it's definitely fleshed out but there are some big deviations too like with Offglen and Angela

I am loving it so much - everything is so well done.

I am watching it in US time, so have watched it up to episode 9. It gets better and better.

It's darker than the book. Hard to believe such a thing is possible.

No way Nick would have taken the ice up to Offred's room. It would have been the Martha.

Yes...darker is a good description

When I said I ordered the book, an older friend of mine said it was quite hard to read. He found it quite chilling.

But compared to this, the book was a piece of piss

It is really hard to watch!

Hard to believe such a thing is possible

The boiling a frog analogy is so real. Slowly, slowly....

Bloody hell this is hard to watch this week.

It is brutal but so beautifully done. The music, the cinematography, acting etc. Stunning work by all involved

I don't get it...what has happened to Emily?

OMG

Jesus that's grim.