Handmaid’s Tale season 4

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. She is a great actress and killing this role. She lasso directed some of the early episodes. And all we can talk about is her weight. This doesn’t happen for men. Who cares what she weighs?

+1000 Leave it to women to tear each other down for the most superficial of reasons.

It is practical, if she was 300 lbs she wouldn't even be able to run down the fricking road, or jump inside the milk train. OR pull herself out by the arms.

You're talking about a 20-30 pound difference in an average height woman, hardly a 150+ pound difference!

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Just watched the newest episode. Finally some forward momentum! I’m glad it’s not the same old “June stays behind” story. They needed this change and I’m looking forward to her tearing up the Waterfords in court and in the media.

Still no Janine - boooooo! Still, I’m hopeful because they didn’t confirm her death. I hope she’s alive, joins the Nighthawks, and kills lots of Gilead commanders. To just end her story with a bombing and disappearance would seriously piss me off.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the newest episode. Finally some forward momentum! I’m glad it’s not the same old “June stays behind” story. They needed this change and I’m looking forward to her tearing up the Waterfords in court and in the media.

Still no Janine - boooooo! Still, I’m hopeful because they didn’t confirm her death. I hope she’s alive, joins the Nighthawks, and kills lots of Gilead commanders. To just end her story with a bombing and disappearance would seriously piss me off.

The pace of this episode could have been swifter, too much wasted/tangential time. But at least the payoff was good. Next week should be epic.

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June is annoying AF. Hopefully she gets her shit together soon

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Her reunion with Luke made me cry so hard. “I’m sorry it’s just me” was a punch to the gut. As a mother, I absolutely felt her pain in that moment.

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It feels to me that the series, which is my favorite series ever so I don’t say this lightly, may jump the shark now that June is out of Gilead.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels to me that the series, which is my favorite series ever so I don’t say this lightly, may jump the shark now that June is out of Gilead.

I disagree. It makes more sense that her alluding the wall each time she is recaptured. Millions couldn't escape once, and she does it time and time again. She's not meant for the front line, which she very much showed this episode.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels to me that the series, which is my favorite series ever so I don’t say this lightly, may jump the shark now that June is out of Gilead.

I assume we'll still see some Gilead in terms of Nick, the commander, and Aunt Lydia. But I do think we need to see June in a Canadian court demanding justice, then figuring out how she can help from Canada once she has a chance to recover. I wonder if we'll start seeing more of Hannah's life in Gilead next season, as they begin setting up for a Testaments spin-off.

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I was happy for the plot to move on. I didn’t believe the crew members wanting to turn her in, people understand that ethics are related to perspective.

The baby scenes absolutely kill me, it could be because I have a baby and I’m still a hormonal mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Her reunion with Luke made me cry so hard. “I’m sorry it’s just me” was a punch to the gut. As a mother, I absolutely felt her pain in that moment.

OMG, I so agree. My DD is about the same age as Hannah, and I when I thought about what it would be like to be in June's shoes. . . it's just devastating.

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Anonymous wrote:I was happy for the plot to move on. I didn’t believe the crew members wanting to turn her in, people understand that ethics are related to perspective.

The baby scenes absolutely kill me, it could be because I have a baby and I’m still a hormonal mess.

I feel you on the hormonal mess part. Season three came out when I was on maternity leave and I had to stop watching it because seeing someone separated from their child was so painful to me. Fast forward a few months and I finished season three. While I still feel the emotions of the show more deeply as a mom now, I didn’t cry every time she saw Hannah!

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Has this already been covered?

Was Janine really with June during the blast? Or was June just imagining her there because they had been through so much together.

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Anonymous wrote:Has this already been covered?

Was Janine really with June during the blast? Or was June just imagining her there because they had been through so much together.

What makes you think that? I think Janine was there, but either buried in rubble or taken away before June woke up. We don't know how long June was out. I saw nothing about the time they were together that made me think it was a hallucination.

This episode was better but the "port check" bothered me. I get that it gave some nice interaction with the soldier (I thought that actor did a great job BTW and so did Samira Wiley), but it's hard for me to ignore the fact that they didn't have a passenger manifest? If this is all tightly controlled enough for these checks and whatever, wouldn't Gilead have a record of who went in? It's near future, right, you shouldn't be able to just "print out an ID" and away you go. It would have been more convincing if they had hidden her. Still could have had some sort of interaction with the soldier and Samira. It just feels like the writing is lazy.

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It was okay. When they slowed down to do an extreme closeup as June stepped off the gangplank I groaned. So much overuse of this one camera shot. Such a heavy handed way to telegraph ...This. Is. Important. Yeah. We get it. We are invested. Can you stop slowing down to highlight things and move forward with the story?

Not to mention the whole backstory with Moira being unsure about Luke seemed entirely manufactured to stall out the episode in the past. Samira Wiley kicked ass and was the one person who made this episode watchable.

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Samira Wiley’s performance was so strong that I wish they’d gone deeper into her story with her girlfriend in Canada and the aide organization rather than reverse engineering old drama between Luke, June, and Moira.