The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2

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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.

Oh god that was amazing. I love the flashbacks to the pre-Gilead life. The scene in the hospital where they were judging her for medicating her child and sending her to school was so relatable.

I was on the edge of my seat throughout the episode. I’m glad it’s continued because suffering doesn’t just stop and the fact they are going into offdaniel backstory, it’s affected so many people those lost souls and children in the letters June had. People did endure such cruelty and it wasn’t just women but men and children one example is the holocaust. It really gives food for thought that evil does exist and it has been possible for it to happen.

That's a very interesting article fruit. I do think this series is going to be more violent.

fruit I havent read the article yet, but it is definitely thought provoking.

I mentioned it DH, he said Germaine Greer said similar not long ago didn't realise he kept up to date with what she does

Joining the thread if that’s ok.

What a first episode! that was a hard watch. Ear cutting!! I couldn’t watch.

God I hate aunt Lydia - do we know her back story?

That would be good.

Scariest part for me was the hospital woman implying June should be a SAHM because she was putting her DD at risk by working. Why scary? Because that shit gets said to women already and always has done.

And yes it would be terrifyingly easy to get to that stage of corralling women for control of their uteruses. (Or any other group for a specific reason) Don’t think too far into it if you want to sleep tonight.

Zibbidi exactly the text convo me and my best friend having right now. Very scary.

I thought at the end of the last series, that the commander was being investigated?

Margaret Atwood has stated that all events in the book have happened at some point in history (and likely to happen again )

The reason this is so scary is that it’s a hair’s breadth away from reality for many women around the world.

This was a tough watch. It is on the edge of becoming part of the problem and revelling in violence against women for entertainment. I’ve been having similar thoughts watching Westworld. Next week looks interesting though.

Brilliant how they used Nick telling her to go in the van to set up the false escape. It’s like a horrendous snakes and ladders.

And what I think is scarier still is the fact Margaret atwood wrote the book in 1985.
Where have we gone since? Further from a future with a gilead or nearer.. It's hard to tell

That was difficult viewing.
What struck me right at the start was the imagery of the handmaids in their red uniforms bleeding out of the womb the vans had created.

The first 10/15 minutes was really brutal. The music just tipped me over.

And my heart was in my mouth just hoping that there wasn't another trap...

But... it was just so brutal. Obviously, it was brutal. But i felt that moving away from the original book has allowed the programme to focus on the brutality whereas the book was so cleverly detailed about the every day life and how controlled and restricted it was but there was still little glimpses of hope...

I'm havering now. It was excellent and difficult. I hope there is hope.

June was excellent.

The reason this is so scary is that it’s a hair’s breadth away from reality for many women around the world.

I totally agree. It’s terrifying to admit that this is a reality in different ways for so many women around the world.

What would Aunt Lydia's alternative be though? She's not powerful or fertile. Surely it's torture or be tortured? She's shown flashes of kindness to the handmaids in series 1, especially to Janine. When she was berating of June for leading the others into rebellion there was some kind of awareness of the impossible situation they were all in and the consequences of these small rebellions. It's hard to tell whether she genuinely believes that her actions are for the greater good or whether she's just trying to survive.

Yes kevin she has collated lots of different real life events into one story. Any them alone are horrific enough.

I don’t know if ear tagging happening to any groups of people IRL but I guess it is akin to the tattooing of Jewish people in the nazi camps.

The scene in the hospital where they were judging her for medicating her child and sending her to school was so relatable.

DH was outraged at that whole conversation. I had to get him to pause it and actually spell it out that as a working mother, I have had similar conversations with colleagues/childcare providers/friends/family and that whatever I do, even if I were a SAHM, I would always be judged and scrutinised. It’s just one example of how we’re only a couple of steps away from the society in The Handmaids Tale

Indeed hobbes it’s an eat or be eaten world she lives in. She must be either the dog or the dinner.

I feel quite sick after watching that.
I think the article has a point tbh. It has become a way of watching women being tortured I think.

But at the same time.... I don't know what I think yet.

They’ve avoided gratuitous explicitly sexual violence (beyond that necessary in the first series).

Gosh that was good. I had to look away at the gas ring and the ear bit though.

Was any one else worried about the scissors not being sterile?

I honestly couldn’t count the number of times I’ve missed calls from my DCs school because one was sick or something happened. And the guilt when I see all the missed calls and finally get speaking to the school.

Because I’ve been at work I mean.

I wonder if they will use Hannah to get June to give herself up.