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

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CruCru · 27/06/2018 19:01

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

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Sassenach85 · 27/06/2018 22:47

Look forward to every Sunday and this thread is keeping me going!!

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 27/06/2018 22:47

Sundays is Episode 7, I think there are 12 or 13 in total

Fuckedoffat48b · 27/06/2018 22:51

Yeah I am pregnant. I find the scenes where they make her eat, or drink the horrible smoothie when she is feeling/being sick really upsetting!

LittleWingSoul · 27/06/2018 22:56

Re Serena again: Her neat and tidy bun had more and more strands of hair becoming stray throughout Sunday's episode... Symbolic of her unravelling? And interesting in juxtaposition to her loose, relaxed hair in the post-Gilead scenes

Roussette · 27/06/2018 23:32

I think I would find it really difficult to watch if I was pregnant or had a LO, but there again I have grown up fertile DDs, and can't imagine them being put through anything like this.

Roussette · 27/06/2018 23:32

Thanks for the new thread by the way Smile

Oldowl · 28/06/2018 06:50

Checking in.

ReadytoTalk · 28/06/2018 07:14

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?

I can't remember what June used to do but I know that I wouldn't have a clue how to locate and use a secure server.

HeyLittleRichGirl · 28/06/2018 07:18

Checking in.
Loving these threads.

Tractorprincess · 28/06/2018 07:27

Just checking in

CurbsideProphet · 28/06/2018 07:54

June worked in publishing I think before Gilead. Nick spent enough time visiting her that they could have had a team effort at getting a message to Canada.

EmpressOfSpartacus · 28/06/2018 07:59

Would a message have helped though? Canada know what's going on. They're taking in refugees but they might well not be up for actually invading Gilead.

Dulra · 28/06/2018 08:18

I think in Ireland they are far ahead as well Yeah Pemba We are a day behind the US so we get episode 11 tonight. It is such a shame that C4 are so far behind I find I can't really discuss on either thread. The spoiler thread have people streaming and watching at different times so I am always nervous going on there in case they are discussing an episode I haven't watched yet. I do enjoy coming on here and seeing your reactions to things but I daren't post anything because it is hard to remember what happened in what episode and I would hate to inadvertently put in a spoiler.

caoraich I am not pregnant my youngest is 6 now but 2 of my colleagues are pregnant with their firsts and they've stopped watching they found it too upsetting

MargoLovebutter · 28/06/2018 09:25

Good point about Serena's hair, whoever spotted that, and she wore trousers too in the flashback, which I thought was significant.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/06/2018 11:29

Marking my place. Thanks for starting thread, Cru.

SusanWalker · 28/06/2018 11:52

I bought a book yesterday - Hitler's Girls, doves amongst eagles. It's about young girls growing up under Hitler. The parallels are quite shocking. I've only read the first four chapters. The one girl describes having to have a medical to join the (compulsory) Jung Madel. She is only ten but they do internal examinations.

She says:
"Looking back though, it is now quite easy to see why the vaginal examinations were conducted as we were to form the basis of Hitler's breeding experiments and the mothers of his 'Master Race' dream. We later learned much about the Lebensborn or Fountain of Life project, and it was very obvious that we Aryan girls were the chosen subjects for this programme. Whether we liked it or not the state was going to choose for us the German men who were going to make us pregnant in order to preserve and continue the very finest of the German race. "

They also talk about how their schooling was centred on physical education and learning about childcare and housework. Girls were expected to miss school if their mothers needed help at home. They were taught basic literacy, but teachers tried not to teach them too much as they didn't want them to be too educated. Jung Madel meetings were scheduled every night and all weekends, in part to leave them no time for any homework.

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 28/06/2018 12:05

I was thinking more along the lines of getting a message to Luke

EmpressOfSpartacus · 28/06/2018 12:17

I was thinking more along the lines of getting a message to Luke

Yes, I see what you mean now - sorry, that does make more sense!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/06/2018 13:12

That's fascinating, SusanWalker.

brokenshoes · 28/06/2018 17:18

Thanks for starting this new thread. I agree with a poster up thread about it being annoying having to avoid spoilers.

Although I didn't know what was going to happen in episode 6, I knew that something was going to happen. I therefore watch the episode with a sense of anticipation and didn't experience the total shock for those watching with absolutely no hints or spoilers.

brokenshoes · 28/06/2018 17:18

Thanks for starting this new thread. I agree with a poster up thread about it being annoying having to avoid spoilers.

Although I didn't know what was going to happen in episode 6, I knew that something was going to happen. I therefore watch the episode with a sense of anticipation and didn't experience the total shock for those watching with absolutely no hints or spoilers.

brokenshoes · 28/06/2018 17:32

Getting a message to Luke - but I think June thinks he is dead. She heard gunshots when she was being dragged away in the woods.

Flaskfan · 28/06/2018 17:38

Didn't someone on last year's thread tell us about places in Germany during the war marked with red crosses, where soldiers were encouraged to have sex with. Suitable Aryan volunteers

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 28/06/2018 17:48

Yes I could also have done without posters from the other thread wandering in screaming EPISODE SIX and then walking back out.

Last night I got bored so I went back and watched the first four of S1 I really recommend it, lots of little things I’d forgotten

I rewatched the bit about the US flag only having 2 stars now, and it left me thinking not that the other 48 must all be Gilead, but that all of the States may have broken up into groups. I just can’t see how such an awful regime could be so widespread without a massive civil war

FairfaxAikman · 28/06/2018 18:10

@brokenshoes she knows he's alive - the aide to the Mexican ambassador told her so in series 1