The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 (UK Pace) - thread 5 - SPOILER ALERT

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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

How could I forget Native Tongue by Suzette Elgin!

Stayed up until 2am to finish it I was so gripped.

Those are of my favourite books of all time, AnnieKenney.

I've downloaded The Power onto my Kindle, and pre-ordered VOX which Amazon is telling me is not available yet.

Also by Marge Piercy, 'He, She and It' (originally published in the UK as 'Body of Glass'). And has anyone mentioned 'The History of Bees' by Maja Lunde? Both of these mix future and past.

Oh, I think we have the same taste in books, Annie. Have you read the two sequels, The Judas Rose and Earthsong? I didn't think either were quite as good as Native Tongue, but still gripping.

I've now got a huge list of books to read - excellent

Yes iI read them both and enjoyed them but the first was definitely the best. I read (non fiction) Man Made Language (Dale Spender) at the same time and both changed my views on the power of language forever (I had previouly thought man hole / person hole Really? Are there not more important issues? I know better now!)

Given tnat we have similar tastes, what else do you love? I enjoyed bits of The Power (the chapter on Saudi had me cheering) but ultimately found it unsatisfying. Have pre-ordered The Vox too.

I'm gutted - in Europe and can't work out how to watch on Sunday so I'll have to wait a week (& duck out of this marvellous thread). I've tested channel 4 and it doesn't work and have tried the web sites mentioned here to no avail. Ah well. It is only a week - and I will very much look forward to watching with the thread when I'm back

cakeinmyhole have you tried accessing via hula.com? It works for me.

Sorry I mean cakeinmyfacehole

Thank you - I did but I'll try again on the off chance

Infinite, I agree that Nick didn’t rape Eden, he was coerced just as much as she was and even Pryce wouldn’t have let him off had he refused because Nick had been given the ‘privelage’ of being issued a wife and, as husband and wife, it was their duty to procreate. I was asking about the first time he had sex with June when Serena orchestrated it and watched. Given that Nick probably could have gone to Pryce and told him how ‘ungodly’ the Waterfords were, why did he feel he had to sleep with June? He could’ve said no, at that time he wasn’t aware that she fancied him.

Annie, I suspect we read the same books around the same time! I loved everything I read by Marge Piercy - the two we've mentioned were my favourites, along with Gone to Soldiers. I also loved Alice Walker, May Sarton and (not quite the same generation) Doris Lessing. And more recently, Toni Morrison and Barbara Kingsolver.

The only other feminist dystopia novel that's springing to mind is 'Glory O'Brien's History of the Future'. I thought it was intriguing but it didn't fire my imagination in the way that some of the others have.

Yes yes and yes again. So I'm guessing you came of age in the mid 80's?!

Sorry everyone for the derail

So I'm guessing you came of age in the mid 80's?!

In a literary sense! I was in my 20s by then, but I didn't read much as a teen or young adult. Feminism and reading woke me up to each other, though I don't exactly remember which came first

Anyone else read only ever yours by Louise O'Neil.. Creepy handmaids tale taken to next level...

I've been totally gripped by this series, but I'm not sure I would watch a third one. And if we are talking a ten series run....definitely not.

Just to make you all jealous, I've just been partying with Max Minghella's aunt!

She's lovely, known her for years. She ADORES my daughter!

#sixdegreesofseparation

I read ‘Never Let Me Go’ because of the hype and my friend raved about it. We usually have a similar taste in books, but not on this occasion. I found the characters and the narrative style really irritating.

I liked the ‘Wool’ trilogy by Howey. Wasn’t taken with it initially, then got hooked.

Interested why you’re not sure if you’d watch a third one Clawdy? I would be annoyed if it went on and on. Some of my favourite series were dragged out and got to a point where they weren’t credible at all: ‘Lost’, ‘The Sopranos’ (remember the bizarre series when Tony was in a coma, leading an alternate life?) ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘Peaky Blinders’ - all got to a point where they were too far fetched or too predictable.

New to all this and have watched seasons 1 and2 in the last month, loving it. I think it could run another season or 2 especially if they showed the downfall and the readjustment back to normality.

Oh god no, don’t let it go like Lost. That was dire.

I know Something! It dragged on and on. Gave up completely long before the end. So promising to start with as well.

I think Nick was coerced into sex at least as much as Eden really shocked anyone would think him a rapist

Totally agree. Maybe I have it wrong, but rape to me means some sort of coercion and if anything it was the other way round (Nick reluctant, Eden not so...)

I too hope they don't go on and on with series after series until it becomes a parody of itself, I'm surprised MAttwood would allow that to be honest. These two series have been so powerful and thought provoking, it just won't be the same if it goes on ad infinitum.

Can't believe it's last one tomorrow!

It’s just 3 series

I thought there was going to be 10 series or something? I can't google till after tomorrow night!