I am so not ready. I genuinely don’t know how I’m supposed to wait a whole week after today’s episode. The way this show has me refreshing Reddit and overthinking every single detail is actually embarrassing😅
One more week. Almost one full hour. I’m stressed, excited, terrified, and fully seated!!!😎😎😎
One thing I find oddly distracting in The Testaments scenes is how often Aunt Lydia just happens to be there.
I don’t know anything about screenwriting or staging, so maybe there wasn’t an easy way to solve this. But her appearances often feel a little artificial to me. She is constantly just sitting nearby, walking past, or wandering through the school at exactly the right moment for another character to approach her.
Like, she just happens to be sitting alone at Becka’s engagement party so Hannah can tell her about Becka’s father. Or she just happens to be sitting alone in the school hallway when Hannah asks her whether she could be make Garth elegible. And then there’s the whole Stadium episode, where Lydia seems to be roaming around the school space and conveniently witnessing everything, including the punishment of Shunammite.
I understand that the show needs to bring Lydia into these moments, especially because she is such a central figure in The Testaments. But sometimes the way it happens feels less like organic plotting and more like Lydia is being placed in the scene because the story needs her there.
And if I'm honest, I don’t know if this is actually odd, or if it’s more that I don’t fully like the way they’re building Lydia’s character… But there’s something about her placement in these scenes that makes her feel less powerful throughout the series, which really contrasts with the force and control she has in the book.
Curious if anyone else felt this, or if I’m being too picky.
I mean the girl who had the portable radio found in her bed frame/footboard and was taken by the Eyes last episode- I think her name is Talia, but I may be wrong. She literally saw Daisy putting the radio there, right? So why are we acting like Daisy is safe just because the radio was “found” in someone else’s bed?
What I don’t fully understand is why she didn’t report Daisy immediately. The show seems to make clear that the pearl girls in Gilead are trained to be obedient and to rat each other out when necessary. Daisy herself kind of did that with Agnes earlier. So wouldn’t this girl just confess that the radio was Daisy’s, especially if she’s the one about to be punished?
Am I missing something? Curious what others think