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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2

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CruCru · 08/04/2018 21:15

I’ve just heard that this will start in the US at the end of this month but Channel 4 haven’t said when they’ll start showing it yet.

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kalapattar · 22/05/2018 15:53

I was reading this article today about the women who had been captured when ISIS fell.

10 minute trials and sentenced to death by hanging.

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/22/they-deserve-no-mercy-iraq-deals-briskly-with-accused-women-of-isis

Followed by women's rights protesters being jailed in Saudi

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/21/further-arrests-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-activists-driving-ban

scrappydappydoo · 22/05/2018 16:15

I've been trying to articulate why I watch this to DH - he can't understand it. I don't watch it for entertainment and it is fiction but I still feel it's important to watch - almost like an education in what if... (If that doesn't sound pretentious)

mummytummy3 · 22/05/2018 17:42

I have not read the book nor watch the first series, but out of curiosity with all the talk about it, I watched the whole of first episode this afternoon and found it really disturbing and absolutely not entertaining watching a man have sex with a maid with his wife there? Can anyone please tell me what should I be interested in?

I then had Made in Chelsea on for the rest of the day!

papayasareyum · 22/05/2018 17:45

Mummy, you really need to read the book and then the first series.

DiddimusStench · 22/05/2018 17:52

You need to at least watch the first series mummytummy.

WishTheGroundWouldSwallowMeUp · 22/05/2018 17:59

mummy it's about the fall of our society as we know it, to religious extremists, in particular it focuses on how women fair in that new society.

extreme and far fetched you may think, but in the book nothing was written that has not already happened to women in societies around the world. the author just put them all together.

if you continue to watch you it, will see the flash backs to how it broke down, little changes here and there in policies, in views ect. until it's too late.......

I could only watch 1 a week as it was so dark.

MyGastIsFlabbered · 22/05/2018 18:05

If you enjoy Made in Chelsea I'm not sure this will be your cup of tea! Apologies to any other MIC fans on the thread.

CurbsideProphet · 22/05/2018 18:08

@scrappydappydoo that's exactly why I watch it (plus being a huge fan of the book).

madeyemoodysmum · 22/05/2018 18:11

I love mic and I like the HM tale. There's room enough for both in my brain and life.

mummytummy3 · 22/05/2018 18:38

Thank you all. Will find series one to watch. MIC is something I can better relate to and lighthearted. Handmaid is really too disturbing. Yes one a week is more than enough. Not sure if I should have the book around my 14 yr old DD! She loves reading.

CurbsideProphet · 22/05/2018 18:45

I read The Handmaid's Tale when I was 14. Why shouldn't your daughter see you reading it?

UrsulaPandress · 22/05/2018 19:35

My thoughts exactly

BG2015 · 22/05/2018 19:55

It was on the A level reading list at one point! I read it during my teenage years. Plan to read it again during the holidays. As a 49 mother of 2 I think it will make more sense.

IamtheOrpheliac · 22/05/2018 20:09

I read the Handmaid's tale at 12, arguably that was a couple of years too early, but the way it was written and the messages woven in to it made me come away educated rather than scarred by it. I read it again last year after watching the first series and was surprised by how much of the depth I had forgotten.

SomethingOnce · 22/05/2018 20:18

I think a lot of the depth was lost on me as a teen, tbh, and probably for the best.

I’d far rather a younger teen read the book than saw the series.

UrsulaPandress · 22/05/2018 20:28

DD is doing it for A Level this year.

rookiemere · 22/05/2018 20:34

I’ve just watched the first episode. I do hope the rest of the series is not quite as dark. As others have said, it makes no sense to recklessly endanger all of your only fertile females by deliberately putting them in a position where they are likely to catch pneumonia.

In the first series all of the punishments made sense and also weren’t quite as relentless watching. I will keep watching though and hoping that I’ve not got another nine quite like that.

DiddimusStench · 22/05/2018 20:35

Well, what reading material is appropriate and when is an age old debate but I would say that 14 is a good age to introduce books such as The Handmaids Tale. To be honest I’ve read teen and young adult fiction that has been just as dark and even more gruesome!

Bravouniformmike · 22/05/2018 20:42

Have not read he book and missed the first series. Don’t have catch up tv but was gripped by the first episode of series two there. Is it at all possible anyone can give a quick easy bullet point type rundown of what I need to know from series one?! Pretty please!

userofthiswebsite · 22/05/2018 20:46

Could you see if it's released as a DVD on Amazon or something?
I think a bullet point list wouldn't quite put it across. It really is gripping to watch.

UrsulaPandress · 22/05/2018 20:46

Search for previous threads

Very erudite and informative.

RiaOverTheRainbow · 22/05/2018 21:02

I think that the punishment makes sense when you consider that refusing to stone Janine could have been the start of all out revolt. Better to lose a couple of pregnancies/handmaids than all of them. Also while Gilead claims to be all about babies, the powers-that-be clearly enjoy subjugating women for the sake of it too.

Soubriquet · 22/05/2018 21:04

Series one is on DVD. I got mine from Asda

Polarbearflavour · 22/05/2018 21:33

The nurse’s questioning of June - not so far from reality is it?!

Very grim. Not sure that mock executions and standing outside in the rain are good for conception either.

scrappydappydoo · 22/05/2018 21:48

It's all about who holds the power as the conversation between June and aunt Lydia showed. The handmaids because of their fertility actually hold the power and 'Gilead' know that. They have to respond quickly and harshly to crush any display or defiance in case they handmaids realise how much power they wield. They then control through fear.
I find it interesting as I am a Christian and I am horrified how my faith is being misrepresented and misinterpreted. Much as I expect many Muslims feel in regard to Isis

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