The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 (UK Pace) - thread 3

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Hi all

Here is the next thread for those who are watching The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 on Channel 4. Please don't put any spoilers on this - the other thread (for those in other countries who are watching ahead of the UK) is:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/3239228-Handmaids-Tale-Season-2-SPOILERS-VIEWING-AHEAD-OF-UK-SREENING

Excellent -- I was looking for you!

Here's the previous thread.

Thanks CruCru!

I remember Aunt Lydia talking about the difference between freedom to & freedom from. I found this interview with Ann Dowd really interesting (spoiler-free).
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/handmaids-tale-season-2-aunt-lydia-ann-dowd-interview

I am a bit scared to read that though, what if there are spoilers in the comments? (are there any?) I agree that Ann Dowd is an amazing actor.

Why oh why can't Channel 4 schedule the show closer to when it airs in the USA so we're not behind all the time? I think in Ireland they are far ahead as well. It's a pain having to constantly avoid spoilers and online discussion that might have non-UK posters.

Would it cost them more or something?

If there are any comments I managed not to notice them!

Thanks! Love these threads

These threads are the best thing on MN right now

Checking in.

This and The Bridge one

It's a pain having to constantly avoid spoilers and online discussion that might have non-UK posters

It's annoying on twitter as you occasionally get US comments the same time as UK ones.

(Thanks for the new thread)

Thanks for the new thread.

I need to give The Bridge a try obviously

As a general point I think THT is lacking at the moment the bravery of something like GOT, in the sense that you feel kind of confident that :

Elisabeth Moss
Alexis Bledel
Madeleine Brewer
Yvonne Strahovski
Joseph Fiennes
Max Minghella
OT Fangbele
Ann Dowd
And
Samira Wiley

Are all SAFE in terms of their place on the show

Yes they all go through this torture, but to no apparent end and there’s no sense that though they are endangered they could die

Even the hanging scene, it was so early in the run that you knew it was just psychological warfare and Offred wouldn’t die. On GOT you know that if your character looks in danger, this might be it for them. Handmaids doesn’t have that - I think anyway

I’d like to see Serena or Fred go, just to mix shut up

I've been watching Resistance - a box set on Channel 4. Based on a true story, it's about a resistance group in Paris during the early days of the occupation. It's not about fighting - but more about the everyday life under the regime, the fear, collaboration, resistance and trying to lead a life knowing it could be ended at any moment - and the point where you don't care anymore what happens because the regime has made you hate them.

Just checking in.

Checking in until Sunday

I need season 3 to have some hope (or even the end of season 2)

Just checking in, thanks for the new thread. I’ll miss a couple of weeks because of holiday and will need to avoid spoilers.

Place marking

Just checking in to watch the new thread.

Love reading everyone’s thoughts and theories.

I agree with mrstark - off with someone’s head!!

Waves to Mygast

Aunt Lydia is Miss Trunchbull in this house

Thanks, checking in!

Slightly off topic - are any of you other fans pregnant?
I'm due in October and have been finding this series really affecting. I loved the book and series 1 and objectively I think that series 2 isn't as good, but it's definitely playing on my mind a lot more as I just potter about my life and feel the LO moving around in there.
Particularly the scene where Serena creeps into June's room and touches her belly and the nursery scene in episode 6.

I struggled with season 1 when i had a newborn baby. It was utterly harrowing. Im not finding this series quite as bad. The Janine/charlotte bits were the worst.

I was thinking about when June was in the Boston Globe

I know the novel is pre-computer but the internet is heavily credited with revolutions in the Middle East

I know that the Internet is probably down in Gilead but there could’ve been a secure server, a VPN, something to get a message out ? No?

Does anyone know how many more episodes we have this season please?

I am enjoying it but beginning to wonder where the plot is going. The book ends ambiguously... And I feel this series now is veering towards sensationalism.
I hope they keep the plot tight and don't get too far fetched. Margaret atwood often says how nothing in the book had not already happened somewhere in the world.. The screen writers need to remember that.
For example where /how did ofglen2 get the bomb?