Handmaid's Tale. EPISODE 4 (season 3). Channel 4, 30/6/19. UK pace. NO SPOILERS!

[AnotherEmma]

New thread for tonight's episode. 15 minutes to go!

Thank you @AnotherEmma for starting this new thread. Bedtime done, so I'm settling down to watch

Checking in.

We usually start watching 10-15 minutes late so we can fast forward the adverts, but I'm feeling impatient tonight!

Thanks. I was trying to do it but every time I clicked on start a new thread it kept disappearing.

Oh no think Aunt Lydia is going to go mad again.

I find it so odd when they play beautiful music like Jesu Joy in this.

Did you notice the staircase was in the shape of an eye! Fingers crossed a happy ending for Emily!!

I'm watching but about 10 mins behind so may not follow the thread live. Will join in at the end.

Placemarking

Checking in. Praise be.

Yes, I noticed the eye shaped staircase. Amazing images as always.

I'm hoping we'll see some more of Emily this week

oh no I hope they haven't given her Stockholm syndrome, and we are now going to see her obsess over Fred 🤢

I though last were writing Nick out, which I found strange, but now I think maybe it's so they can make a story of her a d Fred........

Zigzag. I noticed that!

I am a little confused by the time jumps, baby Angela doesn't look much older than she did before, but I don't remember June being pregnant when the bridge stuff happened, and aunt Lydia seems to have made a very fast recovery. Clearly time in Gilead is a fluid concept.

And where is Emily's baby! Oh dear another time jump! He's at school, not a baby, or even a toddler.

That would make me vomit.

It is strange how a fertility crisis seems to have wiped out racism. I have not noticed any negative attitudes re having a black Handmaid and a dual heritage baby.

Die Lydia die

Someone cutting onions

Loved the way aunt Lydia was put in her place by Naomi, in with the proles not the elite. Won't have improved her temper!

Am I the only one getting bored with this?

I loved season one and two and am just not loving this season, it seems to be dragging! Nothing seems to be making sense, as pp said the ages of the babies seems to not match up, June suddenly becoming the person that Fred confides in and also how she is blatantly treated so differently to all the other handmaids yet no one bats an eyelid! I’m just not loving it anymore!

iced I do agree that the pace needs to pick up a bit now.

The time is also v weird to me. The
Putnams baby would be much bigger now.

How many years was Emily in Gilead / the colonies?

Serena is a fascinating character.

Post coital cigarette?

IcedPurple no. I watch because I want it to be as it was. instead dh and me are pointing out stuff that she really wouldn't be doing.

Yes that cigarette looked post coital to me. June looks drunk on power.