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

The letters!

This is what Luke can do!

Thank god the letters are out of Gilead

At least they are not knocking around for Eden to find now

I think that bar was called The Comrade, so perhaps it's a known hang out for Americans?

Surely they’re refugees? Or asylum seekers? Not illegal immigrants?

BringonSpring, Alaska and Hawaii remain the US. What’s left of the American government is in exile in Anchorage.

Oh it’s like watching a weird tv show crossover to see them all together

hygge that's what I was thinking. Surely Canada wouldn't do that!

The part about Canada potentially extraditing the immigrants is in the epilogue of the book. Canada did indeed start sending the refugees backz

I get so frustrated when the adverts go on!! I just want to scream PUT IT BACK ON AND SHOW ME WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!

So glad Luke has the letters but did nick make a mistake by giving him his name and occupation?

Serena is desperate for her old life but will happily stay as she is to get a child out of it

Surely the timing of the letters getting out will put Nick in the frame.

It's a big risk he's taken.

The more reasonable Aunt Lydia sounds the worse she lashes out usually. This is making me nervous.

that's what I was thinking. Surely Canada wouldn't do that

The UK deports people fleeing dangerous places for them. I suppose it depends on the impact the refugees are having on Canada.

Very clever june. Very clever

Any man who would hurt a woman?

What did Aunt Lydia do to to all the handmaids?

How on earth could aunt Lydia make that promise? She isn’t living with the babies. How could she protect them from an abusive man? She is a mere woman in gilead. She couldn’t speak out against a commander.

It wasn't my fault?

This bit with Aunt Lydia might be the best bit of the whole thing tonight.

It wasn't her fault? That's the most we've ever heard about her.

A polite Canadian fuck off to the Waterford's.

So Canada was not believing the escapees who must hVe told the same stories as the letters???

Hang on a minute, they say someone uploaded the letters so now Waterford no longer welcome. But refugees have been saying the same things for ages. Why wasn’t that enough?

This episode feels more and more timely with all the trump protests just now

Why did the Canadian government not believe the testimonies of the refugees who had already left. Why did it take the publication of the letters too force them to do something?

Xpost jellybean

Indeed it does Tee