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

Yes.

I didn't think they needed to signpost that quite so blatantly, however, by having both Holly and Luke telling June that she should write a book.

What she says in the room at the end is what she says in s1 e1 when she went to the Waterford’s

Yes. That was good.

Plus she left Holly with her mum

to carry on fighting /searching she abandons her baby daughter

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

I missed that!

I wondered at the 2 Hollies coming down from Alaska at all, since she was going to leave them again!

There hasn't been much subtlety in this series.

Is it too soon for favourite moments? One of my top ten has to be Moira escaping and meeting up with Luke because she's on his list of 'family' 😢

Yeah I thought that. Wasn’t needed imo

I agree about Holly coming. Hardly feels safer than Alaska??!! Also annoying how little mention Nicole got. That child is going to have some serious attachment issues.

I missed where Serena got on a bus to… where was that supposed to be?

Also annoyed me how Luke didn’t really acknowledge that June basically killed Nick. I’d have thought that might be kind of a big deal

They couldn't reunite June with Hannah, because Hannah features in The Testaments, living in Gilead. Yes it's really sad but like real life, people don't always get a happy ending. And I suppose it could still happen in the Testaments!

I don't feel as though she's abandoned baby Holly, she's with her grandmother who loves her. And she needs to keep fighting to get Hannah back, and to help destroy Gilead in order to make things safe for her daughters and everyones daughter.

It was so wonderful that poor old Janine got her daughter back after all her suffering, so that was like a stand-in for June and Hannah in a way.

It was good that Naomi did the right thing by relinquishing Angela/Charlotte. But to be honest, I don't think she was that attached to her really. She just wanted a child as a status symbol and seemed to leave most of the childcare to the Marthas. I remember her being very impatient with the child. Lawrence was far more loving and he'd only known Charlotte for a few months surely. He would have been a good father.

To be honest Naomi was an unpleasant woman and also not that bright. She was mean and vindictive towards the handmaids and especially Janine. She was a good match for the horrible Putnam, but Lawrence deserved better than her.

Naomi was horrible.

My favourite scenes are season 1 when Luke gets June's note from the Mexican delegation and also when June is going shopping expects to see Emily but it is fact the new Ofglen accompanied Simply Minds Don't You. Also I think its season 3 when June kills Commander Wilmslow and the Martha's clean up his body.

But yes very disappointing finale. How come Lydia is still alive. Last we saw Gilead was going to execute her so how has she managed to escape death. Also Naomi telling Charlotte/Angela she loved her when she was nothing but horrible to her. Also June was able to safely walk around a derelict house? As if you would.

Are we allowed to talk about The Testaments now?

Those are great moments too.

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).

Was Janine an addict? I remember the new Ofglen having a go at June because she used to be an addict before Gilead but now she had a home where they were nice to her and she didn't want June to spoil things for her. She was the one that then went on to detonate the bomb in season 2 or 3 killing a load of commanders.

Maybe I'm totally mixed up, then.

Yup, I seem to be confused.

https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/Janine_Lindo

What happened to Ava?

I found that really underwhelming. I realised I didn’t actually like anyone left in it apart from Serena. Far too much slow motion and close ups of smiling. I’m glad they have freedom finally but it doesn’t half make for boring viewing.

@peanutbuttertoasty Serena got on the bus to the UN refugee camp so Tuello must have sorted that because Serena mentioned she had no passports

This is why I think that the ending should have been one or two years later because we still have all these unanswered questions

Given how Serena keeps offending people and dropping back into Gilead speak I was quite worried about how she and Noah might fair in a refugee camp. Surely there’s a chance she’ll be recognised like she was on the train and not manage to get herself out of bother. Although I suppose the perfect June gave her a pep talk just before she left so now she will instantly be reformed.

I was really disappointed in the final episode, and much of the final series. So slow in places, then rushed in others and the never ending shots of (mainly June’s) expressions were so overdone. They had a place in the early seasons as often characters were reliant on facial expressions to communicate, but they could just have talked more once they had escaped. I was actually tempted to fast forward parts of this episode. Too many near perfect resolutions with no explanation as well, nice as it was to see them.

When June was day dreaming about being out with the handmaids, was that Stevie Nicks singing?

The Testaments was written due to the TV series of THT, which caused new interest - people wanting to know what happened next.

So Atwood wrote The Testaments to wrap things up and will have done so with a mind to that also potentially becoming a TV series and that is why THT hasn't wrapped everything up... Which annoyingly meant that anyone who read The Testaments wayyyyy before THT series ended, will have been pretty confident that we would not see Hannah rescued at the end.

But even if we haven't read TT, I think it would have been too neat for June to get Hannah back, as well as Janine and Charlotte and all the other neatly tied up ends.

I thought the episode was a bit weird but it sets things up quite well for a The Testaments series, so I am looking forward to that.