Handmaid's Tale Season 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious about other people’s thoughts on why Serena took Eden’s death so badly. Seems like the standard consequence for the crime. I guess I’m just surprised she took it so hard.

I’m really getting tired of the close ups on June. It’s done several times each episode. I get it, she’s upset.

I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the last episode.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Curious about other people’s thoughts on why Serena took Eden’s death so badly. Seems like the standard consequence for the crime. I guess I’m just surprised she took it so hard.

I’m really getting tired of the close ups on June. It’s done several times each episode. I get it, she’s upset.

I think Serena was devastated for several reasons. Eden was the kind of "good, pious girl" (her words) that Gilead was supposed to produce and reward. Serena liked and felt maternal toward her. But she chose "true love" over Gilead's ideology, which I suspect triggered her for several reasons. Serena, who despises her own husband, was sympathetic toward the young girl's quest for love and perhaps is realizing her loyalty to Giliead might not actually represent the right course of action. Presumably she would like" her own" daughter to experience love not just ideology and a bad arranged marriage.

I think Serena is regretting everything, between the writing and reading with June and her treatment in Canada, she is starting to realize the full volume of her actions. She is even verbalizing what has been done (yelling at her husband for rape, as if she wasn't literally holding June down).

Thanks to you both. I’m thinking her moral trajectory is shifting, too. It will be interesting to see the reasons surrounding next week’s sneak peek for her.

[Anonymous]

I think the feminist in serena is rearing its head now that she has a daughter and it's going to be an issue. It's one thing for them to not be able to read( OfJoseph) but her child? That would mean they'd raise her illiterate. That's not going to fly with her it's also going to cause problems with Fred mark my words.

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Anonymous wrote:The metal balls already in the pool are chilling. You can see them in their before Eden and the guy even jump. So many souls already lost so tragically.

How is the manner of death determined for crimes in Gilead? We’ve seen hangings, shootings, drownings, the colonies where the women are worked to death. Such horrific deaths.

I was curious about how that was decided. watched this late so I may have missed something. Were they giving Eden a chance to repent and would they have spared her if she did? I think the guard was going in either way.

I was actually surprised she was downgraded from Econowife to Handmaid. Wasn’t that what essentially happened to June for the same “crime” of adultery. I would have liked to see Eden become a handmaid and Nick struggle to try to rescue them both in S3.

Wallingford probably wouldn’t let that happen. It was an embarrassment to him and his position that they ran off.

Wait, who the hell is Wallingford? Do you mean Waterford?

[Anonymous]

^^ it doesn't matter who they mean, that poster is way off track anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ it doesn't matter who they mean, that poster is way off track anyway.

No, I think that is a plausible explanation. He wants to regain control within his house so he can’t allow loose ends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^ it doesn't matter who they mean, that poster is way off track anyway.

No, I think that is a plausible explanation. He wants to regain control within his house so he can’t allow loose ends.

No, its about his status and reputation. He cannot afford too many scandals as Serena said, they will end up hanging from the wall themselves.

Also Nick is not concerned with what Waterford thinks. He knows that his love for June is the root of the case of Eden's death. He flat out rejected her and she sought affection elsewhere as a result. Come on people, switch on your brains.

[Anonymous]

^^ "cause" not "case"

[Anonymous]

Is there supposed to be another season after this one?

And just saying... http://reductress.com/post/study-bradley-whitford-can-still-come-and-get-it-any-time-he-wants/

[Anonymous]

Yes there will be a season 3

[Anonymous]

I am really hoping that something uplifting happens in the next episode. I can't take much more of the unrelenting despair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am really hoping that something uplifting happens in the next episode. I can't take much more of the unrelenting despair.

My moneys on despair with a topping of hope

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else just relieved this is going to be over regardless of what happens tomorrow? I'm tired of feeling like crap after each episode and then having to wait a week for nothing good to happen and then feeling like crap again. IF I watch the next season I think I'm just going to wait for all the episodes to come out and binge watch them together. Then at least I would just get it over with and I wouldn't have to wait and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else just relieved this is going to be over regardless of what happens tomorrow? I'm tired of feeling like crap after each episode and then having to wait a week for nothing good to happen and then feeling like crap again. IF I watch the next season I think I'm just going to wait for all the episodes to come out and binge watch them together. Then at least I would just get it over with and I wouldn't have to wait and see what happens.

I barely watched this season. Way too much violence and hopelessness. I just read recaps after the episode comes out to keep up.

The story isn't moving along anymore and nothing is really actually happening bc they are so stuck with making everything more violent and dark.

Just move on to a resolution already and end the series instead of dragging it down - June makes it to Canada or Gilead gets toppled

[Anonymous]

I'm ready for this season to be over as well.