Handmaid's Tale Season 3

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Anonymous wrote:It was a good finale but I don’t know why prestige television seems hellbent on making these very dark episodes. It was like listening to a radio show.

I cried at the hanger scenes obviously.

Its a dark show.

No no I meant dark like black. Battle of Winterfell (really GoT in general), this episode. I can’t see what’s happening. I think they get into “movie quality” mode and bleieve everyone will be watching on a giant screen in a perfectly dark room.

Yes, Hulu shows are very dark. I can’t see what’s going on. If I watch on an iPad, I turn the brightness all the way up.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved the season finale! There were so many dull episodes this season but it was worth it to get to tonight’s episode!

I sobbed as the kids got off the plane and that girl found her dad! And when Rita (Martha) hugged Emily.

My only criticism is June getting shot. I hate when shows put their lead character in peril when we already know that actor is signed on for another season.

I knew that she would be back for season 4, but when the camera panned over June’s open eyes while she was lying on the forest floor I still had the moment when I thought, “blink, damn you, blink!”

I loved seeing Rita free. I hope we get to see more of her.

My only criticism is the scene where the handmaids “carried” June out of the woods. They scooped her up in a cape, but it is hilariously clear from the aerial tracking shot that she is actually being wheeled on something like a gurney disguised under the cape. They do such a good job with filming, that seemed like a major goof to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Wives were all infertile. Have we ever seen a life with biological children. I doubt they’d give up a breeding woman to the exclusive use of a single Commander. That’s a good incentive for marrying off the young Daughters to young loyal men like Nick.

The wives aren’t necessarily infertile. They are just the Gilead elite who either helped bring Gilead to power or married someone who did. Most of them are infertile, and they have the power to force fertile “fallen” women to breed for them. There are also the econowives, who are not considered fallen, may or may not be infertile, and don’t have the power to force anyone to breed for them.

I think once Nick became a commander he no longer was subject to forced marriage, but would be considered a good catch for one of the other commander’s daughters, probably.

They only check the woman and assume the men are fertile. So in less the woman has an affair, if she is with an infertile man, she will be deemed infertile and the blame. Many are older woman who are past their prime years of having kids.

I think most are arranged marriages.

Between the commanders and older wives? Why do you think that?

They showed the arranged marriages earlier on. The older ones were probably married before Gilead so those marriages stayed but anyone young is arranged.

I don’t remember arranged marriages with commanders; I remember the episode with the mass wedding ceremony between guardians/eyes and the child brides. The commanders are powerful and function in Gilead as entitled elites. They have much more freedom of choice than econo men.

Commanders kids are married to commanders kids. June was clear the girls were married at 14 in this last episode.

I think we’re talking about two different things here. All women/girls would be subject to arranged marriage, even if they are a widowed wife of a commander, because they have no power and men tell them what to do. Men below the rank of commander, and maybe even a young commander like Nick, would also be subject to arranged marriage. But what about someone like Cmdr Lawrence, or one of the other high ranking commanders (if they were widowed), who tell everyone else what to do? If one of them sets his sights on a particular unattached, “pure” woman (let’s say a widow or pretty teenager who has caught his eye), who is going to tell him that he can’t marry her? I have a hard time believing that those egomaniacs wouldn’t fight marriage to someone that they dislike.

They may be able to say no but I would think they would be remarried.

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They may be able to say no but I would think they would be remarried.

I don’t think that they would be allowed to say no altogether, but I do think that they would be allowed to choose a wife if they were quick about it.

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I loved this episode! I was on pins and needles until Moira sees all the kids on the plane.

I loved the rock throwing scene and June’s face when she shot that guard. All around a really great episode.

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Ok. I ugly cried this episode. I expect red Janine to come back to help June, but when an army returned, I lost it. And Moira seeing the kids on the plane. Omg. Not sure it makes sense, but I do not care.

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I lost it when Luke was watching all the kids come out of the plane and he was hoping with all his heart that Hannah would be among them...

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Anonymous wrote:I lost it when Luke was watching all the kids come out of the plane and he was hoping with all his heart that Hannah would be among them...

I was hoping too!!

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I thought for sure a major character would die in this episode. Glad I was (apparently) wrong.

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Why did June say “My Hannah is dead?”

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Anonymous wrote:Why did June say “My Hannah is dead?”

I think she just means the girl she was before all of this is dead.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did June say “My Hannah is dead?”

I somehow missed that. If it was after she interacted with the first girl, she probably was struck by how brainwashed a kid Hannah’s age is after a few years in Gilead.

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You know as I think about it, maybe the reason Moira’s refugee group was meeting the plane was because Canada/US governments we’re taking a beat? There’s no way this won’t be a huge diplomatic incident. Maybe we’re waiting to see how they will approach it.

That’s probably stretching I know.

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Anonymous wrote:You know as I think about it, maybe the reason Moira’s refugee group was meeting the plane was because Canada/US governments we’re taking a beat? There’s no way this won’t be a huge diplomatic incident. Maybe we’re waiting to see how they will approach it.

That’s probably stretching I know.

I’m glad that governments that have been pinching their noses and dealing diplomatically with Gilead will be forced to acknowledge more hard facts, like systematic child abduction. I hope more of those kids have parents who have escaped Gilead.

Regarding the plane, it was typically used for shuttling goods, legal and illegal, between Gilead and Canada. The dude at Jezebel’s who agreed to move the kids would have been the one to give notice to contacts in Canada, and they all may have agreed to not clue in the government until after the plane was safely in Canada.

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I struggled some with boredom this season (OMG - the entire episode of June kneeling in the hospital was the worst) but I loved the last episode so much that I’m depressed we have to wait years (or what feels like years) for the next season.