Handmaid's Tale Season 2

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If Waterford dies in the blast what do you think happens to Serena and the baby? Do you think they would give the baby to another husband and wife? Offred would definitely be sent to a different household since they know she is fertile.

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There have been commercials for the show airing on broadcast tv showing a scene with Waterford I don’t recall seeing yet, suggesting he’s not dead.

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Anonymous wrote:There have been commercials for the show airing on broadcast tv showing a scene with Waterford I don’t recall seeing yet, suggesting he’s not dead.

PP again, of course it could also be a flashback scene.

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I don’t think Waterford is dead. Pryce definitely because of what Nick asked, and probably the guests that Gilead was trying to “dazzle”

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Anonymous wrote:I think Ofglen went rouge because after they cut out her tounge she had nothing to lose, so why not kill them all?

How would she have gotten her hands on bomb-making equipment? Someone must’ve helped her. Just because a handmaid said mayday was shut down doesn’t mean it’s true.

I interpreted the way they all ran away from the window before the blast to mean they were all in on it. Perhaps I’m wrong. But also, June was away a long time. I’d not be surprised if they decided not to bring her into a plot given her capture and her pregnancy/stress level, plus she was largely separated from them.

Not being permitted to read/write would make the tongue punishment even more cruel, so I wonder how they handled all the plotting. I thought the way June included her at insane brunch with yes/no questions was so kind.

Am I right to think that Ofglen was wearing the bomb? Or did she just detonate something that was planted in the room? If she was wearing it, I think that suggests the handmaids could have done this themselves.

I don't think the other handmaids were in on it, because while they noticed her break ranks, they didn't move until she turned around to the glass wall and showed them what was in her hand. If they'd known what was coming, she wouldn't have had to do that, they would have started running as soon as she entered the building.

Or, they knew, but they were told not to run until she raised her hand. If they ran too early, they would have raised suspicion.

I assume she was wearing the bomb and that is why she ran as far as she could into the room.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn't Offred say anything when she started bleeding?

My impression was that she was hoping to miscarry. When she woke up in the hospital and the baby was still.alive she seemed surprised.

[Anonymous]

Several interesting twists this week. Also good to see Samira Wiley again.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn't Offred say anything when she started bleeding?

My impression was that she was hoping to miscarry. When she woke up in the hospital and the baby was still.alive she seemed surprised.

I don't think she was hoping to miscarry. I think she assumed she was miscarrying and that she was delaying telling them because her situation would get very bad if they knew she lost the baby. If you are miscarrying, there's really nothing they could do. So if she thought (and given the amount of blood, it would be reasonable) that she was miscarrying, she probably assumed there was nothing they could do. It's possible she thought that maybe dying by blood loss would be better than what they would do to her once they realized she lost the pregnancy. I doubt she realized/thought it was a blood clot.

And of course she was surprised when she woke up and realized that she didn't miscarry; that was an epic amount of blood. She probably assumed the pregnancy was over, but she didn't know what to do because she figured she'd be blamed if she lost the pregnancy.

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Anonymous wrote:Several interesting twists this week. Also good to see Samira Wiley again.

Loved the whole episode.

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Anonymous wrote:Several interesting twists this week. Also good to see Samira Wiley again.

Loved the whole episode.

+1. Don’t want to give spoilers, because it was just released. But the scene in the grocery stores (except Eden, she’ll be trouble) and the ending gives me some hope.

I feel so awful for Moira on both her big plot points.

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Does anyone remember this HGTV show a few years ago about a family in Canada that was renovating their house? The husband was an actor, they had three kids, and the mom was a designer/hottie. Anyway... the dad from that show is the actor who plays Commander Cushing!! It was driving me nuts last week when they showed that shot of him at the end, sitting in the auditorium, right before the place blew. It's so funny to try and reconcile the goofy hot dad from that HGTV show with the evil Commander Cushing.

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Anonymous wrote:Several interesting twists this week. Also good to see Samira Wiley again.

Loved the whole episode.

+1. Don’t want to give spoilers, because it was just released. But the scene in the grocery stores (except Eden, she’ll be trouble) and the ending gives me some hope.

I feel so awful for Moira on both her big plot points.

Just watched it and WOW good episode.

[Anonymous]

Such a good episode!!

Questions (relating to the LATEST episode):

— why does Luke seem so ‘whatever’ when moira asks ‘don’t you wanna find out if she’s alive?’ After the woman was releasing details about the blast

— I’m the PP that posted about craving a soft side from both aunt Lydia and Serena. We keep getting teased with it and then they act like b*tches again. Did we finally see a soft side from Serena towards the end?? I’m sure she’s just looking out for her own interests (both with getting rid of cushing, and needing June for editing), but still. I saw a glimmer of compassion, I think.

— this ones not directly episode related. But, can someone remind me who the econo-families (I think that’s what they’re called) are? Like the women that wear all grey. One example is the bread truck driver that helped offred and then got killed. How did they have a kid / family if all the fertile women were forced to be handmaids? The wife was still fertile since aunt Lydia said she got shipped off to be a handmaid. Why are they ‘allowed’ to be normal citizens/ families? Any details on this class?

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Anonymous wrote:Such a good episode!!

Questions (relating to the LATEST episode):

— why does Luke seem so ‘whatever’ when moira asks ‘don’t you wanna find out if she’s alive?’ After the woman was releasing details about the blast

— I’m the PP that posted about craving a soft side from both aunt Lydia and Serena. We keep getting teased with it and then they act like b*tches again. Did we finally see a soft side from Serena towards the end?? I’m sure she’s just looking out for her own interests (both with getting rid of cushing, and needing June for editing), but still. I saw a glimmer of compassion, I think.

— this ones not directly episode related. But, can someone remind me who the econo-families (I think that’s what they’re called) are? Like the women that wear all grey. One example is the bread truck driver that helped offred and then got killed. How did they have a kid / family if all the fertile women were forced to be handmaids? The wife was still fertile since aunt Lydia said she got shipped off to be a handmaid. Why are they ‘allowed’ to be normal citizens/ families? Any details on this class?

The econowives are the wives of non-powerful/average men. Not all women are infertile, just many. The Commanders (and other powerful men) have the luxury of handmaids if their wives turn out to be infertile.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such a good episode!!

Questions (relating to the LATEST episode):

— why does Luke seem so ‘whatever’ when moira asks ‘don’t you wanna find out if she’s alive?’ After the woman was releasing details about the blast

— I’m the PP that posted about craving a soft side from both aunt Lydia and Serena. We keep getting teased with it and then they act like b*tches again. Did we finally see a soft side from Serena towards the end?? I’m sure she’s just looking out for her own interests (both with getting rid of cushing, and needing June for editing), but still. I saw a glimmer of compassion, I think.

— this ones not directly episode related. But, can someone remind me who the econo-families (I think that’s what they’re called) are? Like the women that wear all grey. One example is the bread truck driver that helped offred and then got killed. How did they have a kid / family if all the fertile women were forced to be handmaids? The wife was still fertile since aunt Lydia said she got shipped off to be a handmaid. Why are they ‘allowed’ to be normal citizens/ families? Any details on this class?

The econowives are the wives of non-powerful/average men. Not all women are infertile, just many. The Commanders (and other powerful men) have the luxury of handmaids if their wives turn out to be infertile.

Oh, I was under the assumption ALL fertile women became handmaids. So how did women like June and Emily etc get ripped from their families and forced to be handmaids, but others didn’t? I’m digressing and I know that’s not the point, but wondering for my own curiosity.