Handmaid’s Tale season 4

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Glad Trump is gone but the Dem's have done nothing either.. So, not really less scary.

[Anonymous]

I was surprised to see the Waterfords together in the trailer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Poster you are responding too, and very true. I do think the fact that the whole story felt less theoretical during the Trump years made it less entertaining. I think I could go back now.

[Anonymous]

I want to start watching the series. I read the book about 10 years ago, read the testaments about 2 years ago....can someone remind me, I thought the Testaments way pre-dated the Handmaid's tale. I can't remember if it told of the ending of Gilead in that book or not.

Also I have to assume that everything after season 1 or 2 of the show is not based on source material right? It takes off after the book ends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to start watching the series. I read the book about 10 years ago, read the testaments about 2 years ago....can someone remind me, I thought the Testaments way pre-dated the Handmaid's tale. I can't remember if it told of the ending of Gilead in that book or not.

Also I have to assume that everything after season 1 or 2 of the show is not based on source material right? It takes off after the book ends?

Testaments is set about 15 years or so after The Handmaid's Tale.

I would say the show very heavily draws from the source material and expands on it, but it's not a linear re-telling of the book like the '90's movie was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to start watching the series. I read the book about 10 years ago, read the testaments about 2 years ago....can someone remind me, I thought the Testaments way pre-dated the Handmaid's tale. I can't remember if it told of the ending of Gilead in that book or not.

Also I have to assume that everything after season 1 or 2 of the show is not based on source material right? It takes off after the book ends?

Testaments is set about 15 years or so after The Handmaid's Tale.

I would say the show very heavily draws from the source material and expands on it, but it's not a linear re-telling of the book like the '90's movie was.

Wow thanks I think I need to go re read the testaments I thought it was the orogin story of that Aunt Linda character. Maybe I just didn't realize the timeline from being such a large gap from reading the first book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Glad Trump is gone but the Dem's have done nothing either.. So, not really less scary.

Seriously! They've had over a month to fix four years of corruption and ineptitude. What losers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Glad Trump is gone but the Dem's have done nothing either.. So, not really less scary.

Seriously! They've had over a month to fix four years of corruption and ineptitude. What losers!

Haha! Too funny. So many scary things happened over the last 4 years that to many of us, HT didn't seem so far fetched. Now I can watch in a different way.

[Anonymous]

The Testaments just came out a year or two ago, definitely after the first season or two of Handmaid's Tale aired on Hulu. The series was already beyond the source material by the time The Testaments was published.

I think Margaret Atwood has been working with Hulu all along, in which case the creators of the show would know from her where she ended taking the story, even if the reading public was unaware. Not sure about any of that, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Testaments just came out a year or two ago, definitely after the first season or two of Handmaid's Tale aired on Hulu. The series was already beyond the source material by the time The Testaments was published.

I think Margaret Atwood has been working with Hulu all along, in which case the creators of the show would know from her where she ended taking the story, even if the reading public was unaware. Not sure about any of that, though.

Yes, you are correct.

Handmaid’s Tale
Seasons 1-3 2017-July 2019
Testaments - September 2019
Season 4 - 2021

Season 1 follows the original book for the most part. Seasons 2-3 new expanded storyline, with Atwood as a consulting producer.

[Anonymous]

Yay Nick is back!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks really good. I never totally bought the Nick and June relationship, but I will deal.

I really like how it appears that we are still dealing with our core characters and we haven't left the rest of the Handmaids behind. I want to see the outcomes for Alma, Jeanine, etc.

And thank goodness we've moved beyond Boston.

Wasn't that the Boston skyline in the scene with the resistance fighters in the pickup truck? I thought that was the Pru in the center of it?

I thought it was Chicago based on an article I read.

I wrote that quickly - I don't really have a problem with Boston as the location. In fact, I appreciated the way they worked in Fenway Park and The Boston Globe. It was more the situation in Boston - well-established Gilead society where June keeps ending up back in a home as a handmaid. I am ready to move away from that.

You could be right. I would love it if they moved it to Chicago. And yeah, the Boston Globe and Fenway scenes were really powerful.

The Boston Globe scenes were amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Poster you are responding too, and very true. I do think the fact that the whole story felt less theoretical during the Trump years made it less entertaining. I think I could go back now.

Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale during the rise of the religious right in the '80's. Everything in the book reflects something that has already happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Damn I need to catch up. DH and I enjoyed season 1 but got behind and never started season 2. Then 2020 happened and it just seemed too depressing. I might go back and start season 2!

Now that we have Dems running both WH and Congress, it's less scary! Good time to catch up. (I had to take a break for a couple of years from Man in the High Castle after Trump was elected.)

Well, aren’t you clever ...

[Anonymous]

Nick, Nick, Nick!!

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