What do you want to see in S5 of The Handmaid’s Tale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On Hannah remembering her name, I can see that….if when she was taken she was determined not to forget and did something like say her name to herself every day so she wouldn’t forget it, practice writing it with her finger in dirt, etc. I can totally see a kid hanging onto that one thing as a way to maintain sanity. I think there is some precedent for that in traumatized kids—focusing on remembering one thing from their old lives sort of like keeping a key even when you’ve forgotten what it opens.
Also, she’s June’s daughter, so if anyone is going to have a quiet core of steel running through her, it’s going to be Hannah.

Idk last time June saw her she seemed so brainwashed and afraid of her own mother--I thought this seemed to come out of left field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Hannah remembering her name, I can see that….if when she was taken she was determined not to forget and did something like say her name to herself every day so she wouldn’t forget it, practice writing it with her finger in dirt, etc. I can totally see a kid hanging onto that one thing as a way to maintain sanity. I think there is some precedent for that in traumatized kids—focusing on remembering one thing from their old lives sort of like keeping a key even when you’ve forgotten what it opens.
Also, she’s June’s daughter, so if anyone is going to have a quiet core of steel running through her, it’s going to be Hannah.

Idk last time June saw her she seemed so brainwashed and afraid of her own mother--I thought this seemed to come out of left field.

Yeah, but she was being held in a glass cage by the Eyes, who likely told her it was June’s fault. That’s scary. It wasn’t too long before that she met with June at that house, and she clung to June then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Hannah remembering her name, I can see that….if when she was taken she was determined not to forget and did something like say her name to herself every day so she wouldn’t forget it, practice writing it with her finger in dirt, etc. I can totally see a kid hanging onto that one thing as a way to maintain sanity. I think there is some precedent for that in traumatized kids—focusing on remembering one thing from their old lives sort of like keeping a key even when you’ve forgotten what it opens.
Also, she’s June’s daughter, so if anyone is going to have a quiet core of steel running through her, it’s going to be Hannah.

Idk last time June saw her she seemed so brainwashed and afraid of her own mother--I thought this seemed to come out of left field.

This. And June has spent more time with Hannah in the last 6 months than with Nichole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Hannah remembering her name, I can see that….if when she was taken she was determined not to forget and did something like say her name to herself every day so she wouldn’t forget it, practice writing it with her finger in dirt, etc. I can totally see a kid hanging onto that one thing as a way to maintain sanity. I think there is some precedent for that in traumatized kids—focusing on remembering one thing from their old lives sort of like keeping a key even when you’ve forgotten what it opens.
Also, she’s June’s daughter, so if anyone is going to have a quiet core of steel running through her, it’s going to be Hannah.

Idk last time June saw her she seemed so brainwashed and afraid of her own mother--I thought this seemed to come out of left field.

I feel like a lot of things in the show are playing out that way. Flashback to Serena and June sharing a smile during the cringy part of the birth. What? Angry Canadians who suddenly hate well educated and capable American refugees feeling from a violent and oppressive neighbor. What? Joseph is suddenly all powerful and coming up with a new little island where people who don't want to actually follow the rules of Gilead and chill with other people from Gilead. Ok. Not to mention the ridiculousness of the rescue operation.

Just bad writing all around.

[Anonymous]

TBH, I wish this series would end…like now. There was one good episode this season. It’s dragging on.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I still want to know what happens so I read recaps. But I don’t watch it because the implausibility is irritating and I think they’ve made so many of the characters flip flop about that I don’t really believe them any more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TBH, I wish this series would end…like now. There was one good episode this season. It’s dragging on.

I’m the PP upthread who said I was disappointed that there’s going to be another season. I just want closure and to never watch this show again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TBH, I wish this series would end…like now. There was one good episode this season. It’s dragging on.

I’m the PP upthread who said I was disappointed that there’s going to be another season. I just want closure and to never watch this show again.

Yeah, I also mentioned upthread that I wish this was the last season. I’m just watching to get through it at this point. I was obsessed seasons 1-3. Season 4 on has been kind of boring.

[PP]

[Anonymous]

Trying not to be spoiler-y, but they have said they’re going to do one more season and then film The Testaments. If that is true, then we know certain things will or will not happen. The next season will have to be getting from here to there. All the characters can be as weird and annoying as they want, but at least for some, we know where they will land.

[Anonymous]

What exactly is the Testaments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trying not to be spoiler-y, but they have said they’re going to do one more season and then film The Testaments. If that is true, then we know certain things will or will not happen. The next season will have to be getting from here to there. All the characters can be as weird and annoying as they want, but at least for some, we know where they will land.

Oh god, no. Why are they doing The Testaments? I hated it. Will not be watching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly is the Testaments

Margaret Atwood wrote a sequel a few years ago, I think around season three. I think it takes place around 15 years after the original Handmaid’s Tale book, so after season one. A few characters are the same, and a few are almost definitely known who they are supposed to be, even if they don’t name names exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Hannah remembering her name, I can see that….if when she was taken she was determined not to forget and did something like say her name to herself every day so she wouldn’t forget it, practice writing it with her finger in dirt, etc. I can totally see a kid hanging onto that one thing as a way to maintain sanity. I think there is some precedent for that in traumatized kids—focusing on remembering one thing from their old lives sort of like keeping a key even when you’ve forgotten what it opens.
Also, she’s June’s daughter, so if anyone is going to have a quiet core of steel running through her, it’s going to be Hannah.

Idk last time June saw her she seemed so brainwashed and afraid of her own mother--I thought this seemed to come out of left field.

I feel like a lot of things in the show are playing out that way. Flashback to Serena and June sharing a smile during the cringy part of the birth. What? Angry Canadians who suddenly hate well educated and capable American refugees feeling from a violent and oppressive neighbor. What? Joseph is suddenly all powerful and coming up with a new little island where people who don't want to actually follow the rules of Gilead and chill with other people from Gilead. Ok. Not to mention the ridiculousness of the rescue operation.

Just bad writing all around.

Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that!

I'm slightly less bothered by the rest except for Hannah WRITING her name. She was 4 when she was taken from June in a very traumatic way. I guess maybe seeing June a few years later jolted her memory, but still.

And yes, the rescue plan involved three planes? What kind of freaking rescue plan is that? And the Americans should know exactly what Gilead's capabilities are? It's stolen American equipment! Gah.

[Anonymous]

What do you think will happen next for Serena?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trying not to be spoiler-y, but they have said they’re going to do one more season and then film The Testaments. If that is true, then we know certain things will or will not happen. The next season will have to be getting from here to there. All the characters can be as weird and annoying as they want, but at least for some, we know where they will land.

Nooo! Really? I thought the one redeeming feature of the show was that they would just pretend the Testaments never happened and wrap it up differently. I usually love Margaret Atwood but The Testaments was bad. It was like Young Adult sci fi or something.