Handmaid's Tale Season 3

[Anonymous]

Ugh. It seems like there are so many things that just aren't that well thought out or inconsistent.

So the plan was to get Mrs. Lawrence out of Gilead because there was no medication to treat her mental illness, but somehow she has access to enough pills to overdose??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. It seems like there are so many things that just aren't that well thought out or inconsistent.

So the plan was to get Mrs. Lawrence out of Gilead because there was no medication to treat her mental illness, but somehow she has access to enough pills to overdose??

I thought that too. It may have been sleeping or other pills and not the mental health ones. It did seem odd.

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed a bit after last week's great episode. The whole bit about Serena seeing Nichole really bugged me. I hope the Canadians are just trying to keep her buttered up so they can exploit her knowledge of Gilead and that they don't intend to ever have any formal role in Nichole's life.

It doesn't make sense to me that June would let Elinor die. Yes, she's out of her mind and could let info slip, but she's easy enough to keep secluded. Everyone knows she's crazy and often confined anyway. There's no reason that they can't keep her shut in for one week. If the other wives come to visit, no one would raise an eyebrow at being told that she was indisposed and unable to visit.

Elinor was the motivating reason for Lawrence to go along with June's scheme. He already backed out on her once and tried to cross the border without her. Plus, how can he not be suspicious that June didn't kill her after the way June yelled at her during her crazy rant? It seems to be that Lawrence's morals are squishy and unreliable. Only his devotion to his wife was reliable.

Without Elinor and with cause for suspicion, I think June is much worse off having let the suicide succeed.

Agreed! And June should have tried to help her!

I think June saved hundreds of lives by not helping Elinor. All those Marthas would have been on the wall.

She was sharing the plan and it would have killed many. Elinor was suffering and even if they escaped she would have probably found way to kill herself. The ceremony put her over the edge. She was a good woman.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed a bit after last week's great episode. The whole bit about Serena seeing Nichole really bugged me. I hope the Canadians are just trying to keep her buttered up so they can exploit her knowledge of Gilead and that they don't intend to ever have any formal role in Nichole's life.

It doesn't make sense to me that June would let Elinor die. Yes, she's out of her mind and could let info slip, but she's easy enough to keep secluded. Everyone knows she's crazy and often confined anyway. There's no reason that they can't keep her shut in for one week. If the other wives come to visit, no one would raise an eyebrow at being told that she was indisposed and unable to visit.

Elinor was the motivating reason for Lawrence to go along with June's scheme. He already backed out on her once and tried to cross the border without her. Plus, how can he not be suspicious that June didn't kill her after the way June yelled at her during her crazy rant? It seems to be that Lawrence's morals are squishy and unreliable. Only his devotion to his wife was reliable.

Without Elinor and with cause for suspicion, I think June is much worse off having let the suicide succeed.

Agreed! And June should have tried to help her!

I think June saved hundreds of lives by not helping Elinor. All those Marthas would have been on the wall.

She was sharing the plan and it would have killed many. Elinor was suffering and even if they escaped she would have probably found way to kill herself. The ceremony put her over the edge. She was a good woman.

They could have kept her locked in her room. She was confined to it most of the time anyway, so no one would have questioned it. It was only going to be for a week, not indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Agreed, simple to hide her in her room for one week.

[Anonymous]

Except I think suspicion was already high after she starting saying stuff to the other two wives. They might have insisted on seeing her.

Dead men tell no tales.

[Anonymous]

Nah, she would have blown it at the airport, or on the way to the airport (i.e. rolling down the windows as they drive through the neighborhood in the van to ask if Johny wouldn't like to come too.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. It seems like there are so many things that just aren't that well thought out or inconsistent.

So the plan was to get Mrs. Lawrence out of Gilead because there was no medication to treat her mental illness, but somehow she has access to enough pills to overdose??

I thought that too. It may have been sleeping or other pills and not the mental health ones. It did seem odd.

They'd established that the Martha's had been smuggling pills for her so I just assumed she had hoarded some of them, or she ran out of some before others. It didn't bother me tbh as much as the sort of vagueness about her mental illness in general and why it would explain (with all the trauma of course) her behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except I think suspicion was already high after she starting saying stuff to the other two wives. They might have insisted on seeing her.

Dead men tell no tales.

If that made them suspicious, then her death would raise questions, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Except I think suspicion was already high after she starting saying stuff to the other two wives. They might have insisted on seeing her.

Dead men tell no tales.

If that made them suspicious, then her death would raise questions, too.

Well at her burial, the camera paused on Naomi (the blond wife that accompanied with Cmr Stabler's wife to Cmr Joseph's house) in an eery way. I wonder if she's suspicious?

[Anonymous]

I kind of got the vibe that Commander Lawrence and June might be starting to have romantic feelings for each other.

Meanwhile, where is NICK????

[Anonymous]

I think Eleanor killed herself without any assistance. She knew she was a threat to keeping those kids safe. Any side eye Lawrence gets is the same before, he was never conventional by Gilled’s standards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I kind of got the vibe that Commander Lawrence and June might be starting to have romantic feelings for each other.

Meanwhile, where is NICK????

My ideal ending: Nick is on the airplane with Hanna and the final scene is of him helping June and the kids onto the plane.

[if you couldn't tell, I grew up watching Bollywood movies )

[Anonymous]

They couldn’t get her mood stabilizers, but there are plenty of other obtainable medications that would be lethal in high dosages. I’m surprised she didn’t use the gun long ago. Eleanor indicated in this episode that she would never be happy, even if she got out. June’s instinct was to save her, but she had to override that in order to a) keep the mission a secret, and b) mercifully let her go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I kind of got the vibe that Commander Lawrence and June might be starting to have romantic feelings for each other.

Meanwhile, where is NICK????

Nick is in Chicago. He better be up to his a$$ in covert resistance arrangements.