Handmaids Tale, Season 2: SPOILERS / VIEWING AHEAD OF UK SREENING

[Aridane]

I'm starting a thread for those of us watching Season 2 and who want to discuss ahead of its screening in the UK.

So far I've watched the first 3 episodes.

God the 1st episode was grim.

Or is that one of the wives? In the hospital with baby Angela.

That's the Putnams, isn't it?

Yes, it’s the Putnams

Definitely a radiant Serena bathing a baby

Swimming pool shot -doesn’t look like Isaac (dark hair and slimmer than Isaac)

(though swimming pool shot female does look like Eden )

Who,is woman in hospital gown and bed, with uniformed guard outside,and man in overcoat with dark hair beside her??

Look at me!

I think you'll find that's me.

Looks like Eden and Isaac at the pool. Nick isn’t that tall compared to Eden and the guy next to her is much taller.

Those pictures of Serena and the baby make me cringe, I hope there is some hope for June.

I’ve just got round to looking at the cast on instagram. They all look so different in real life!

It's Isaac, just had a mooch round google. The top of Eden's head is level with Nick's eyes. Eden only comes up to Isaac's shoulders.

The guy in the pool scene is way too tall to be Nick.

Interesting review of last episode

www.usworldnewstoday.com/the-handmaids-tale-confronts-the-cruelty-of-ripping-children-away-from-parents/

Next episode is called Holly, that’s also June’s Mother’s name. So could the baby be a girl and she names her after her mother. Even though SJ will likely change the name.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum!

I remember that from reading the book in my A-Levels. Don't let the bastards grind you down. June was obsessed with it after finding it as a carving.

Random I know, it's just such a good book that I still remember its impact on me from like 12 years ago now. :)

Reddit Q&A thread with an extra on the set who plays a background handmaiden

www.reddit.com/r/TheHandmaidsTale/comments/8f4tst/i_am_an_extra_on_the_handmaids_tale_ama/

(am searching for who is in the pool - no success but coming across lots of interesting articles)

The picture definitely looks like Eden and Isaac. I don't want to see watch that, Eden just looks like a kid. :(

The woman in red & white is definitely Emily. The older man is her new Commander, Joseph Lawrence (played by Bradley Whitford, iirc)

It’s odd that they’re sitting surrounded by books and papers in one picture. In the other it looks like the Commander’s wife (dressed in teal colours, I think) kneeling between him crying.

I read this new Commander is quite puzzling, a founder of Gilead but now very doubtful about the direction in which it’s going...

Poor Eden - so young.

www.elitedaily.com/p/whats-going-on-with-eden-isaac-the-handmaids-tale-characters-are-clearly-up-to-something-9494710

And apparently the pool scene is an execution scene and not a torture scene

The woman in red & white is definitely Emily. The older man is her new Commander, Joseph Lawrence (played by Bradley Whitford, iirc)

Then it just must be an odd angle. He just looks so much bigger than her in that still. Like adult to child bigger. The two actors are closer in height than the picture makes them appear.

Bradley Whitford 5'11'
Alexis Bledel 5'7''

Yes, she looks like a child in the second picture

Guys have you seen this it's pure comedy 😂😂 i woke DH up laughing at the end of it

Inspired by the above, I bring you Handmaids in the City

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCXD3_wW2w