Handmaid's Tale Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:After the handmaids give birth and leave after weaning; do they list go to another family to be raped?

Yes. They go to the handmaid center to recuperate and then sent to another family.

How awful. I had a friend who was pregnant every year of high school. I imagine she'd be popular[/quote]

Yikes! Hope she is doing well now, that is a LOT. Yes, she would probably be popular.

I did think it was interesting in this recent season they had the marriages of these very young girls, like Eden. I don't think this was in the book at all, and was something that I wondered about since it seemed in the book (also the show before the marriage ceremony) that most of the handmaidens were not all that young. Late 20's to mid 30's. I guess they would have had to have some kind of sin to land them there like June (adultery via divorce) and the very young girls would have been more slated for future econo-wives? That seems to be the case. But yes, in the book I remember thinking, from a pure breeding standpoint...I wonder what's happening with all the really young ones? As Atwood said she did not write about anything that had not happened for real somewhere in the world, that they weren't using teens to up their reproduction numbers was surprising. Great, but surprising. I think the showrunners actually did a good job of showing that they indeed did hone in on this age of woman, they just had a slightly different role in the society. None of the women escaped, they just had their own versions of hell.

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The acting in this episode was incredible. I sobbed during Hannah's scene. It wasn't enough to steal her but to change her name

She can't possibly escape at 9 months. The ceremony is ridiculous.
Also this week's rape scene felt worse than season 1. I thought they were making Serena more sympathetic? I hope she rots with the commander.

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Anonymous wrote:The acting in this episode was incredible. I sobbed during Hannah's scene. It wasn't enough to steal her but to change her name

She can't possibly escape at 9 months. The ceremony is ridiculous.
Also this week's rape scene felt worse than season 1. I thought they were making Serena more sympathetic? I hope she rots with the commander.

Agreed. When a rape is the least traumatic part of an episode, that’s saying something. Hannah’s scenes broke my heart and I finished the episode with huge tears staining my cheeks.
Interesting that of the two “new” names we have heard, they are both started with A
ie: Hannah ~ Agnes
Charlotte ~ Angela

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The rape scene was awful. I imagine it is beyond triggering for some viewers.

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Can someone explain what happened with Nick, at the very end?

[Anonymous]

Funny the other tape scenes were sad but this episode was overwhelming and triggering.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what happened with Nick, at the very end?

Someone like called in a tip for either suspicious activity at the farmhouse, or maybe Hannah's family got word of it. The other guard said they needed to leave NOW, so he knew someone was coming. It's in a different district so they didn't know that June was still there.

[Anonymous]

A hard episode to watch

[Anonymous]

Oh it just struck me. What if Nick is punished for whatever he was doing, and they drown him and Edith!

[Anonymous]

(imaginary) spoiler alert:
The guard who is sweet on Eden was the one who rounded up Nick because he wants to replace him as Eye and Eden's husband. It won't work. The guard and Eden will be hung. June is starts her escape, goes into labor, and there's a cliffhanger ending. Season 3 will reveal if June ultimately escaped and what happened to Serena, Nick and everybody.

I think Serena will conveniently go away to the colonies so Yvonne Strahovski can do maternity leave.

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Hannah's heartbroken little, "Mommy" at the end was the worst moment of the series for me.

I don't know if Isaac is angling to replace Nick ... I think Eden and he are teenagers who like each other and are acting stupid. I think Fred is behind the shootout with Nick.

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Anonymous wrote:Hannah's heartbroken little, "Mommy" at the end was the worst moment of the series for me.

I don't know if Isaac is angling to replace Nick ... I think Eden and he are teenagers who like each other and are acting stupid. I think Fred is behind the shootout with Nick.

Yes, it would have been quite Machiavellian of Fred to set up Nick after June taunted him about paternity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hannah's heartbroken little, "Mommy" at the end was the worst moment of the series for me.

I don't know if Isaac is angling to replace Nick ... I think Eden and he are teenagers who like each other and are acting stupid. I think Fred is behind the shootout with Nick.

Yes, it would have been quite Machiavellian of Fred to set up Nick after June taunted him about paternity.

Fred DID say something to the effect of "you deserve this" to June as he was sending her off in the car...and I know I didn't think he had good intentions when he said it. Could he have set this up to be part kindness to June in letting her see her daughter again and part punishment, shooting Nick and stranding her?

[Anonymous]

this show is so so hard to watch

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hannah's heartbroken little, "Mommy" at the end was the worst moment of the series for me.

I don't know if Isaac is angling to replace Nick ... I think Eden and he are teenagers who like each other and are acting stupid. I think Fred is behind the shootout with Nick.

Yes, it would have been quite Machiavellian of Fred to set up Nick after June taunted him about paternity.

Fred DID say something to the effect of "you deserve this" to June as he was sending her off in the car...and I know I didn't think he had good intentions when he said it. Could he have set this up to be part kindness to June in letting her see her daughter again and part punishment, shooting Nick and stranding her?

I thought that Nick knocked the guy's hand down and the shot went into the ground? Maybe that's wishful thinking. But he's an Eye; he's had military training.