r/TheHandmaidsTale

I’m on the first series

I think she strictly enforces the policies, but like…. Deep down there’s a heart. Like she’s not inherently bad if you get me. I’m just PRAYING I see inner badasses in her, Offred and Serena Joy

I’m slowly watching the entire series and I think she’s badass
I didn’t think the commander (who gives me the creeps) would allow a female ambassador in…. But I digress. It’s about building an alliance

She was asking questions TO Offred instead of speaking FOR her.

Something tells me she was showing concern too. Because it was an unusual custom to witness - handmaids bearing children for a nation. I would say ew, too.

What is it with the constant watery eye close ups in the later seasons? I get that the circumstances are mostly very bleak… and it might just be me thinking this. But do the constant watery eye close ups feel a bit forced or like over acting at times?

i stood with june 100% of the way

i'm glad nick helped her but he got what he deserved. i'm glad he died

i want june with luke and i think the way they parted ways in season six episode 10 broke my heart but was a logical ending to their relationship and i imagine them together with hannah and nichole

i cried so hard when alma and breanna died :( actually the only time i really actually cried

serena omg i empathized deeply with her humanity but everytime she was in a bad spot i felt retribution and satisfied, yet relief when june would help her or she could get away. so conflicting

fred was such a creep omg and his actor played a creep so well i cringed at him the entire series

aaahhh i loved the show but i dont think i could ever rewatch it. i feel traumatized

also edited to add: i just loved luke so much. i stood with him 100% of the way

also adding: and moira loved her she was so real

only character i really didn't care that much about was Emily tbh her character was so bland. of course i cared about her experience and i'm glad she was okay in the end but they even made her fall off the show randomly with no explanation until the last episode? okay i guess lol

Serena Joy’s baby, Noah, would’ve been born around 2019/2020, so do you think he’s taught Serena what 6-7 is? Do you think Serena knows about Italian brainrot?

Same with June to be honest, Nichole is about seven years old now, so would they both be IPad kids? I think this is funny I have cousins this age and all they talk about is memes

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So I just finished season 2 and I have some doubts/comments about it, and honestly, I'd like to hear from you so I know if I should continue watching it or maybe wait a little.

Season 1 was really good for me, I really liked how everything was portrayed and what I liked the most is that, I felt no one was safe, the tension was there and I was stressed at all times because of the life the handmaids had.

Season 2, on the other hand, started feeling more like June was the main character (Yeah I know she is, but in Season 1 she was one handmaid more, living under the same rules all other handmaids) in a bad way, >!she escaped while pregnant and!< wasn't even punished, I know >!she was pregnant!< and everything but we had another >!pregnant woman chained!< in a basement before.

And the Cherry on top of the cake, was the fact >!she had the chance to escape and still decided to stay!<. Yeah I got it, >!her daughter was still there!< but let's be honest, what are her chances of saving her being stuck in there, either she gets killed for >!stealing a baby!< (Yeah it was >!her baby!< but not for everyone inside Gilead) or some really dark punishment I'm gonna regret to watch.

Somehow I feel like this went to the Handmaid's Tale to The Hero Handmaid and I don't like it, 'cause the plot is just helping her again and again.

Does this continue in further seasons? Do we go back to the 1st season feeling of danger and dark realism at some point? Will June continue to be protected by the plot so we can make it to Season 6?

I am in the first season of the show and I am gonna be honest with y'all, at least half of the time I spend skipping the pointless flashbacks. What a nuisance. Does anyone else also find them to be really unnecessary most of the time?

P.S. I am obviously not talking about the important ones that shows the characters backgrounds or how everything went south, but I don't feel the need to watch five minutes of scenes about they having a family breakfast in the past.

Showed Gilead actively mistreating Mexico to make the character more sympathetic. Otherwise, she just looks like she is going along with a terrible system.

Ok ok ok I finished the show yesterday and rushed here to vent my (common) frustrations about the series.

It's still taking up a large amount of space in my brain so I wanted to take the time to talk about the positives!

For me it was the political and "lifestyle" aspects of the story.

I'm usually drawn most to scifi/cyberpunk media because of my anxieties surrounding tech/politics/corporations. It feels cathartic to see extreme examples of my fears played out but I feel this show captures that magic in a specifically original way.

I loved how absolutely horrifying D.C. was and how the elites in Gilead dont have to change their lifestyles to the extent of everyone else in their "mission to reduce emissions" that they frequently brag about to other countries. Their hypocrisy was spot on and how I feel things will inevitably play out as global warming ramps up in the real world and people will be forced to change.

So as the title suggests please tell me what you're favorite part of the series that makes it so much different than all the other dystopian thrillers that have flooded the media landscape!

Does anyone else get kinda burned out from June? Long rant

I'm finally finishing the show after reading Testaments(which I also loved) so that I could watch that series too. By season 3 I get really sick of how June forward the story is and how much plot armor she has on. It starts to feel like all the other women around her are just kind window dressings to her trauma porn show and are incapable of being as strong/smart/brave as she is... Which kinda sucks for it being a story about women perseverance through a brutal authoritarian regime.

*SEASON 3 SPOILERS*

It really becomes undeniable when they're sneaking the kids out of Gilead via the plane. June first thinks of the idea, does like 90% of the planning, does a lot of the big moves to set and cover it up(including KILLING THE FUCKING PRESIDENT), yells at everyone to keep the plan going when they want to bail, guides the group, distracts the guards so she can be the hero that takes the bullet in the end.

Everyone else mostly just whispers and bakes muffins. When it's time to roll out the first Martha to show up botched her only part in the thing by showing up HOURS early to the house during full daylight then bails only to get caught in a multitude of ways.

Like this is a network of women who are SURVIVORS smuggling children out of a rape dystopia... can we just let them be organized and capable and brave? NO June has to do almost all the work because apparently she the only one with the balls to do it, no wonder she's fucking bat shit crazy!

I feel like the show was so much more balanced with characters in the beginning. I kinda wish the had switched main characters in each season as there are other handmaids I would love to know more about. Obviously Janine gets a fair amout of screen time but I would have loved more of Alma and other regular faces.

Idk maybe unpopular opinion, maybe other people also feel the same. What do y'all think?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH. I watched midway through season 3 so some things I may mention were only shown later than season 1 or beyond.

Im rewatching after a while and am only in the first few wepisodes of season 1. Forgive me if im misremembering but we learn June was an editor and wasnt Serena a writer? Thus they had similar professions (or wpuld have worked along side eachother maybe). Throughout season 1 at least I remember them having a few moments where they seem to enjoy each other's company, so im wondering whether they might have bonded to become friends?

I've been watching this since my daughter was born in April whilst I've been nap trapped. Two questions:

- what the HELL do I watch now that's anywhere near as gripping

- and when the HELL are they going to make a follow on! 😂😭

That is all, praise be.

Why is it that posts praising Lawrence, fawning over him or excusing his wrong doings don’t get tagged as wet for a war criminal? You know, considering he committed some pretty big war crimes, like creating concentration camps…

Is it because old rich white men are more palatable to the faux feminists and patriarchy puppets?

I am watching THMT with a lot of joy so far. Yeah, the long scence just showing Junes expressions are terrible and so far (I am in S5.5) the story was too slow. But the story was good, incredible even. I loved how strong June got and how well planned, tactical she acted with the little chances she got up until the end pf season 4. Her writing felt very good, you could feel her trauma and her anger, nevertheless, other characters like Rita showed another realistic character development in how people could deal with trauma.

Ok, now I am mid season 5 and holy moly, it feels like another GOT S8 is happening. Junes writing turned south. Now she seems to forgive Serena?! Even helping her to some extent? And that after she killed her husband with her bear hands. What a turn. A horrible one. Serena is amont the most horrible characters in the whole show. What she did, in particular to June is unforgivable. At least on par with Fred and just out of nothing everything is fine again.

Then June really thinks about going back to Gilead, just to sometimes see her daugther Hanna. But Hanna will still be part of the system, she will still be regularly raped, June will just be able to watch it closely. The price for that, would likely be the end of America, the US and ahh, her life in freedom and her second daugther.

So my question is: Will this horrible, unrealistic writing continue? Is this yet another GOT S8 thing? Or is this bs just a few bad episodes?

Dude ok im not shipping but I remember when I was first watching the show when I seen the scene where Serena is helping Naomi give birth and she makes eye contact with June I lowk thought she was going to have an affair with June not Fred 😭 (also Reddit these are fictional characters not real people)

Why does June let Mrs. Lawrence d1e? She sees her in the bed, sees the pills, rushes for a moment but then she hesitates and let the woman die. Did she make this out of revenge? To make Mr. Lawrence suffer? Was it out of pitty, like she thought Eleanor would have “peace” this way? Or maybe to have a better chance with her plan somehow.. Idk. I’m just thinking she’s a psychopath at this point 😅