Handmaid's Tale. EPISODE 12 (season 3). Channel 4, 25/08/19. UK pace. NO SPOILERS!

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This is the thread for Episode 12 (season 3) of The Handmaid's Tale.

We are watching on Channel 4, UK pace and have only seen episodes 1 - 11 so far.

Please, NO SPOILERS.

I can't believe there are only two more episodes - tonight's and the season finale next week. Very patchy series, which picked up last week.

I'm sooooo excited! Hoping it'll be as nerve wracking as last weeks episode!

Place marking. Although I'm torn. Peaky blinders or handmaidens tale.

I've got to go to bed early as I'm getting up at 5.30 to go away so ... Record Handmaid's Tale and Sanditon (not impressed by the trailer but like Jane Austen) and watch Peaky Blinders on catch up another day.

I'll be watching on catch up again unfortunately...

Blessed day, bitches.

I bought tickets to watch La Atwood talk about her new book in the cinema on 10th Sept...

I'm watching; a few minutes behind live broadcast but will hopefully catch up in the first advert break.

Well that was annoying. The voiceover guy announcing the programme gave a bit of a hint as to what’s going to happen. I hate it when they do that.

Indeed a bit patchy this series and def picked up last week. Looking forward to watching how on earth they are going to get the children out.

I can't help feeling we're bring set up for a fall.
THT is never optimistic for long.

Ive watched every episode of this season on catch up days later except this one as it has finally picked up

Ha. He knows she shopped him. Good.
Although he even believes his own hype - that he'd never let anything happen to her. Erm, the finger?

Go Moira!

So glad to see June smiling . I love her !
I also really like seeing Moira and Luke co parent Nicole so effectively .
And glad Serena finally got told by Moira .

The wives’ outfits look green tonight.

When Nichole was in the mediation / visit room, they had overlapping sounds of two babies vocalising at the same time, which was a bit weird.

Is it bad that I still sort of pity/feel for Serena? I know she's been complicit, but she is still a victim of the regime too 🤷🏼‍♀️

I missed a chunk following the first advert break! Why is Serena getting visitation? Was it a trade for bringing them Fred? I'm worried the trade included her keeping the baby and Moira's going to return to an empty room!

(They need plotlines for next season!)

The wives ate definitely wearing different colours. The Winslow wife and the one she was sitting beside were in very different shades of blue/green...

Are not ate!

So that WAS Bradley Whitford and his new RL wife* in the same scene, wasn't it? I thought they didn't appear together.

• wife of the missing hut actually dead commander

Just catching up.

Loved the play on words with ‘gender traitor’.

Also thought of CL’s comment last week re. underestimating the maternal bond during the scene between Serena and Fred. She sold him out because of her maternal bond with Nichole/Holly, as warped as that is.

Was worried that Serena might have been getting custody of the baby in exchange for Fred, but the social worker’s comment seems to hint otherwise - ‘you can’t use terms like that’ when she called herself Mama.

The commanders wife is a liability! Eek!

Blessed be the pineapples