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.

It's a very plush holding centre/ prison!

Oh Luke, please punch him...

Yes Luke!! Praise be

Oh June. No. Don't.

I know she’s a liability but she’s decent...don’t let her die.

Surely she needs her, so June can remain in the house and keep Lawrence on side!

Will the commander go through with it though if his wife is dead? He was only doing it to get her out and to help.

won't she be called immediately back to the red centre once there is no more wife in the household?

Stop smiling.

Why let her die?

The colours all seem brighter tonight. In previous episodes they were all quite “cold”. It seems to me that now there is a shift in power they’ve warmed things up.

I don't really get how they could agree a visit for Serena with Nichole. They aren't even related.... it seems a bit of a stretch to me.

I think visitation rights for Serena would be part of the deal for delivering Waterford

Hmmmm. Very slow episode. Next weeks would need to be better.

No way, that was such a short episode.

A shame about Eleanor , I was really looking forward to her being freed with all the children

Because she was a liability Merry. She slipped up in front of the other wives and was going to run round the street offering to save children. The dead can’t speak.

Does CJoseph know/suspect?? Was that what that look was?

I thought that look was, you and me are in this together now. Let’s do this!

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.

I have the volume switched off until the Lexus bit starts to avoid voiceover guys.

I don't get why Luke was given access to Waterford (to punch him). Why would they allow that and why would either of them request to see the other? Far fetched IMO

I thought he suspected too.

That’s a good idea Empress. He said something along the lines of, ‘June has a plan, but tragedy strikes,’ so I spent the whole episode waiting for tragedy!

For one awful minute I thought June was going to put a pillow over her face...
Like a previous pp I would have thought it better for Eleanor to be alive to keep CL onside but I suppose she was just too dangerous.

Did I miss the part where June learned gun skills?! She was very adept at handling that gun in the first scene..

Did I miss anything important at the end after June went and stood next to C. Lawrence? My TV picture and sound started breaking up at that point and carried on doing so until halfway through the credits.

Well, as Luke has custody of the baby, maybe he asked for a meeting with Fred in exchange for Serena’s visit.