C4 / UK pace: No Spoilers Please - Handmaids Tale returns anyone else excited?

[Ladybird69]

YEY. just seen the new season is starting 23 October. I binge watched the others earlier in the month so can’t wait for it to start again. The ending was a shocker that I didn’t see coming. I can’t wait to see where they’re taking it. Will serena joy get let go because she was under his orders AND she’s having a baby. Or will she get put into jail and baby taken away when he’s born.

Lastly - Fred's body did not look like it had been "torn to pieces" - it looked rather intact! I thought the handmaids would have castrated him at least!

They were going to but the actress who plays June vetoed it apparently.

Really @gamerchick, wonder why?!

I'm glad they didn't show it though as seeing June taking a chunk out of him was bad enough! Especially when she didn't clean up the blood for so long!

Fred had been fairly majorly damaged. You could see ribs and all the sinues in one leg. June bit him in the throat and I assumed his genitals would have been high on the list.

She just didn't want it if I remember right. There was an article somewhere about it.

Just watching ep1.

I really like that June has become unlikable through her trauma. It’s what happens in real life. So pleased they haven’t made her a pliable and forgiving woman who rises above it all. I like angry women, and I like watching them (in fiction in this case)

Just caught up.
My thoughts are why were Fred's genitalia was still intact?!

With June not cleaning/washing, my guess is it was cleansing murdering him, and to wash would disturb the feel of being 'cleansed'.

Slow start, and I'm a sucker for spoilers and also impatient so I've caught up on episode synopsis on YouTube at US pace so I know good is yet to come.

Still a stunning bit of telly, obviously implausible, but isn't all TV?!

I think I kind of get why they left his genitals intact (from a show pov).

I think to have removed them would risk reducing everything he did to June and other women as being 'just' about the rapes. As we've seen, they were horrific both in their happening and in the clinical way they were perpertrated. But there was also many other forms of abuse: mental and emotional abuse, removal of agency, violence, humiliation and the theft of her children.

She suffered the whole lot and I wonder if the actress didn't want to risk it seeming like it was the rapes that she was especially angry about, when there was so many other terrible abuses as well.

Good theory @HauntedCabinet - makes sense.

Me too! Season 1 was outstanding. Read the book for A Level many years ago and hated it but this series had me hooked and it really affected me. I had such high hopes for season 2 but didn't live up to expectations and has sadly got more ridiculous. I stick with it purely because of how much I loved season one and want to see how it plays out.

yeah it;s so good i must of missed half of it loads i dont remember

I enjoyed it, and had been thinking they should send Serena back to her beloved Gilead, once she's had the baby, with the baby staying to be adopted by normal people in Canada. But now after Fred's death she would become a kind of martyr, so should stay in Canada (in a normal prison, not the luxurious place she's been in). I also don't get the nutjobs supporting the Waterfords, surely Gilead would welcome them if they think it's so great? I'd be up for however many series they make, but must say I was not impressed with The Testaments.

Blessed be episode 2.

blessed be the frootloops

Subtitles on this week

Commander Lawrence to Serena Joy on the subject of (ice) hockey:
"You'd love it. Elegant yet brutal."

How on earth is Serena allowed back to Gilead like this?

Surely Tuello has no influence or status in Gilead so no right to accompany her?

Why is Mrs Putnam's teal a much lighter shade than all the other wives'?

Loving the Lawrence/Serena sniping!

I guess it's some kind of diplomatic thing and besides Gilead probably isn't arsed about Serena. She's got no status or power as sn unmarried woman.

I don't think she will be allowed to go back to Canada

@Munchyseeds2 ooh, I hadn't thought of that, but it would seem perfectly just. Leaving her unwanted in both Gilead and Canada.

I hope they leave her in Gilead.

Poor Janine.

He's a creepy fucker even by Gilead standards

Urgh God yeah that scene was just so uncomfortable to watch.

They’ll make her a Handmaid