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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why I keep watching this show. This interview [url]https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/handmaids-tale-recap-season-2-episode-6-explosion-serena-joy-protest-demonstration-bruce-miller-interview[/url] suggests they're trying to make Serena a complicated or sympathetic character, and I just don't buy it.

I know, I know. Too many women have been complicit in the rape and torture of other women and men for too long in our history for them all to have been monsters. But I'm not sure they literally held them down.

Politically I don't consider myself to be part of the puritanical wing of the resistance, but I just don't want to go there with Serena. She's a deeply, deeply horrible person. Nobody wants a baby that bad.[/quote]

For me, learning about Serena's back story actually makes her less sympathetic. She wasn't an innocent bystander. She actively fought to bring Gilead into existence. On top of that, she thought that she would be exempt from the restrictions imposed on other women because she was part of the early leadership. That even though she's a woman, she's special somehow. It's worst of hypocrisy. She created a set rules for women that she didn't think applied to her.[/quote]

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