Handmaid's tale, season 6

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Anonymous wrote:Nick sucked:
- the actor who played him sucked
- the character has zero personality
- they had no chemistry

Forgot to add that I liked the husband’s transformation from wimp to badass.

He was a civil engineer right? I would have liked it more if instead of being the nadass he was the hero-geek that used civil engineering to help mayday and help rebuild Boston. That would feel more true. I thought their ending was sort of lame … like they were sort of breaking up without saying it. And llle they are each separately gojng to try to get Hannah but without any sort of plan. All out war against the commanders seems likely to put Hannah at risk … it just seemed very random and not thought through. I also thought it was very pat that the only main characters that died were commanders.

I sort of thought we would see a finale in which Hannah is rescued but either June or Luke (or both) is killed.

Maybe Serena should also write a book. How We Broke America and Betrayed God’s Commandments, A Confesssion. I wonder if that would help convince people that Gilead is as bad as they all imagined.

Also. With all those lost children posters in Boston…..presumably all the killed commanders in New England had kidnapped kids in their houses.? Why did we not get some scenes of liberation for those kids (and their Martha’s) and joyful reunions with their parents. I’m thinking of the scene at the end of Empire of the Sun where the families that were separated during the Japanese invasion are finally reunited after the end of the war. That is a seriously gut wrenching scene that has stuck with me for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nick sucked:
- the actor who played him sucked
- the character has zero personality
- they had no chemistry

Forgot to add that I liked the husband’s transformation from wimp to badass.

He was a civil engineer right? I would have liked it more if instead of being the nadass he was the hero-geek that used civil engineering to help mayday and help rebuild Boston. That would feel more true. I thought their ending was sort of lame … like they were sort of breaking up without saying it. And llle they are each separately gojng to try to get Hannah but without any sort of plan. All out war against the commanders seems likely to put Hannah at risk … it just seemed very random and not thought through. I also thought it was very pat that the only main characters that died were commanders.

I sort of thought we would see a finale in which Hannah is rescued but either June or Luke (or both) is killed.

Maybe Serena should also write a book. How We Broke America and Betrayed God’s Commandments, A Confesssion. I wonder if that would help convince people that Gilead is as bad as they all imagined.

Also. With all those lost children posters in Boston…..presumably all the killed commanders in New England had kidnapped kids in their houses.? Why did we not get some scenes of liberation for those kids (and their Martha’s) and joyful reunions with their parents. I’m thinking of the scene at the end of Empire of the Sun where the families that were separated during the Japanese invasion are finally reunited after the end of the war. That is a seriously gut wrenching scene that has stuck with me for decades.

Off topic, but the scene in the crowd when the kid loses his mom in Empire of the Sun never left me - I watched it as a child and it was all my fears crystallized

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Anonymous wrote:Post-finale... Is anyone else just glad this show is over? The one "big question" that haunts us throughout the show remains unanswered, and we get a bunch of hokey montage scenes I, for one, could've easily lived without. 2/3 of the way through, I found myself wishing they'd compacted the previous episode and just squished all of this one in at the end.

At least it's over? I guess?

What’s the big question?

When/How/If she gets back to Hannah.

I don’t think any book readers had that question.

Speaking of the book, I liked that they ended with June beginning to tell her story. Does anyone think we’ll ever flash forward to the Symposium during The Testaments? It would be interesting to see Gilead’s history being studied through June and her daughters’ accounts.

That's precisely the issue. "Here's a nice, extended wrap up of every little detail... except that one. For that one, you'll need to read the book."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That finale was so boring. It was like 5-10 minutes of content but filed in slow motion with moody music.

It also irritated me that she burned the hand maids dress. I assume those are tough to come by and might be helpful to someone gojng in to spy.

Agree. Terrible. I fast forwarded through most of it.