HANDMAIDS TALE S6 - thread 2 - time various but sun ch4 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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New thread for the last two EVER episodes as either going to be a lot of replies as last 2hrs will be amazing and all loose ends tied up

Including seeing Hannah whether new head or not

Or

Be totally crap and wonder why we have just spent the last 10hrs of our lives watching s6

Sadly does seem like they have run out of ideas even tho based on a book. ?

below is thread 1

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5323712-handmaids-tale-s6-starts-sat-3rd-may-ch4-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Janine did deserve some happiness. She got the brunt of the crap tbh

Janine the Indestructible.

There should be a Janine spin off showing everything she went through, although it would be really nasty viewing

Yes, lovely to see Janine reunited with Charlotte. ❤️

Was Serena talking about writing a memoir a couple of episodes ago?

I want to watch the whole the thing again from Ep 1 now

So it’s finished. Honestly it was a crap ending imo

she didn’t find hannah

i didn’t understand the separation of her and hubby

why didn’t they go and look for hannah together ?

the ending was e1 in s1

guess I need this explained to me

but I was very disappointed

almost feel s6 was a total waste

Also means I now need to watch the testaments when it’s on

and will get pulled into that

but why was the testaments written 15yrs later

Right so my opinion is that I liked the symbolism, especially at the end because it was the first words she said in S1 E1 but for me, I would have liked a “one year later” or “two years later” to let us know what and how everyone was doing and settling back down after the fall of at least that part of Gilead

Recap E 10

https://tvline.com/recaps/the-handmaids-tale-season-6-finale-recap-emily-returns-1235452403/

I agree

The previous episode was so much better than this one but I kinda felt like this was a gift to fans with Emily and then Janine getting Charlotte / Angela back. I felt sad for them about Hannah but I think she's still in Gilead in the Testaments so they couldn't have her rescued.

I didn't understand Luke and June going to find Hannah separately and was about to say the same thing. Maybe they just needed to go their separate ways but still didn't make sense if they have the same aim.

the ending was e1 in s1

I may be being slow but don't understand what you mean by this!

I had very mixed feelings the first time I saw it - I was annoyed that there was no reunion with Hannah but I liked the links to earlier series.

Thing I've realised what you mean

It starts with the same bit where she introduced herself as Offred

I see that because the book is her memoir. All of what we just watched is the book and this shows her getting to that point and starting to tell the story

I did that when I first watched this episode - re-watched series 1 in 2 days!

Yes I was disappointed the first time I watched it and almost found it a bit dull

I felt like it was so rushed and that if earlier episodes had been less slow they could have got a lot more stuff in about the downfall of Boston. June seems to have made peace with it all rather quickly. It felt like a non ending, just, is that it?!

I don’t know what’s worse, this or Lost. Ffs!

I still haven't been able to re-watch the last episode of Lost!

@Eldermileniummam the words she was saying in Fred’s house when she was looking around then doing her story “the chair, lamp” etc were the same words she said in Season 1 episode 1

I would like to have seen some of Hannah's story inside Gilead. Also how she is with them when they find her? Does she remember them? Is she brainwashed (especially against June) and how do they cope with that? Does she even accept them as her parents?

I liked the fact that Serena got a bed, a chair and a table.

I actually think it would be too unrealistic if they had found Hannah in the last episode. I'm kind of glad they didn't tie everything up in a bow for June, Luke, Hannah and Nicole to live together because after everything they've all been through that would be highly unlikely to happen. I think if she had the choice she would have chosen nick so Luke has bowed out. I guess the Americans need to defeat more states and work their way towards DC and then Luke and June are saying they'll meet there when that happens to get Hannah. At the moment I'm assuming they have no safe way of getting to DC without passing through gilead controlled land.

I thought it was all a bit flat but would have hated a happily ever after ending.

As with much of the rest of the Series 6, I felt that this episode was rushed - telling, instead of showing.

The imaginary sequence was rather optimistic about how life would have been for the women had Gilead not happened. I recall that at the beginning of the series, Janine was an addict and initially glad just to be fed at the Red Centre (before she realised just how bad things were).

I was glad that Janine got her happy ending. I was also happy to see Emily, but the dialogue seemed a bit forced to me - the explanation that she would never abandon her family seemed to ignore the PTSD which she clearly suffered from in Canada.

I'm really disappointed that there was no reunion with Hannah. I'm wondering whether they're going to use her in The Testaments (which I haven't read). Even if she doesn't appear in the book, there's nothing to stop the writers from including her since the tv series has diverged from the original.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ESTHER, sorry for shouting

really glad we got see Emily in her glasses again

In one episode in a previous series, ISTR that Hannah is shown writing her own name in secret, so she seems to take after her mother.