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

Star Wars AND Alien refs!

It's nice to have June's voice back.

Maybe working was what she needed.

Eden is going to report nick for sure. He's not sleeping with her enough

Sooo much ch better with the sub titles on

Surprised the guards allowed June to take over and stop them from intervening

Loving the episode so far. June's voice is back. Janine is awesome. And Emily pointing out that the handmaids are raped - it's like everyone had forgotten that it's rape.

I feel for Eden, fundamentally she is a hormonal teenager trapped in a marriage she didn't ask for or want to a man who avoids her when he can living in a house on egg shells. It's hard enough being a hormonal teenager without all the rest.

Loved may the force be with you!

Eden is going to spruce up the house so will she find the letters?

Eden wants him to love her and she wants to 'do her duty' to God.

I feel for her because she's young and she's been brainwashed and kept ignorant, and she has no idea of what real relationships and love are.

I imagine there are a lot of young brides in Gilead feeling that way. Confused about why their husbands don't love them and why their marriage hasn't made them happy when it's their purpose.

But she's going to be a living nightmare because of her ideals, and I think she might be spiteful.

She's either going to report Nick because she thinks he's a traitor (gender or otherwise) or go after June when she realises Nick loves her, because she will think with June out of the way Nick will learn to love her.

Are they going to look for a female doctor?

I know in the book that Angela died and they called her a shredder, but is it possible that Naomi Putnam is harming her?

She doesn't like Angela, they've made a point that she complains about her, she hated Janine and she doesn't seem to want or love her. Perhaps she's doing something to her?

I don't understand, who is the dr, is it a woman we know?

This is interesting.

Serena, who wanted women back in the home, is now faced with the consequences.

They'd rather a baby die than a woman be above her station.

Kala they know a female doctor who is capable of helping but it's illegal for her to practice and she is now a Martha

Urgh. Waterford is truly vile isn’t he? A dying baby, he can help but meh, nope. God says no.

Did June give serena a hint as to how far Shen will go to keep her baby by saying she would do whatever she could law or no law?

Serena is being faced with the consequences of Gilead tonight.

I am LOVING the Serena and June show.

Did serena get the Martha???? Please yes yes yes

Serena has done this hasn't she?

It can't be Fred, Serena has done the paperwork and got the Doctor anyway.

Yes maybe it is Mrs Putnam

I think i’ll Have to suspend my disbelief if I’m to continue with this series. I just don’t buy it at all that they would even contemplate letting janine see the baby. In Gilead janine is nothing to the baby. She is nothing but a cow who has calved. They wouldn’t consider the baby as anything to do with Janine and wouldn’t consider her being owed anything in terms of seeing her before she died.

I don't like Fred in June's bedroom.

June is showing signs of a bit of Stockholm syndrome. Which I think is probably what would happen to most of us...

Oh my God. What's he seen?!

The rose from his wife to June!