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[quote=Anonymous]I just finished the first three episodes - the ending of the third gave me hope that it will pick up the pace from here on out. I find myself conflicted

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I was really struck by the dissonance between what June pretends to want and what she actually DOES. She really has a lack of focus. Her #1 job at that farm in episode one should have been to recuperate and move on. Get the rest of the Handmaids out of Gilead if that's what they want and organize the remaining to join the Resistance. Instead, she's messing around with not one, but two trips to Jezebels, the latter of which almost certainly resulted in the discovery that the Handmaids were in the area. So she gets captured, poor Mrs. Keyes is captured, and eventually all the Handmaids. It's sloppy. If June were inept and portrayed as such it would be one thing, but she's not.

I was also pretty disturbed by the whole Mrs. Keyes' storyline, up to and including manipulating and encouraging a traumatized teen to kill. Then again, she was poisoning her husband, so... And the part where she describes being passed around to all these men. I mean, I realize Gilead is awful and everything, but there wasn't any man at all that would say, "This is wrong." And I frankly question a 14 year old playing that part as well.

I am very over the June torture porn and while I get what Episode 2 was trying to do, just no. And bringing Hannah in? Again, really exploitative. And it's beginning to strain credulity that June has not been killed and put on the wall, much less the rest of the Handmaids.

I am grieving the loss of Alma. I really loved her. I hope she will be the link to what's going on in Gilead and that we will get more of her origin story.

I'm loving alllll the Canada stuff. Serena's pregnancy is a trip, and calling Nichole's paternity into question could be an interesting twist. But it needs to end with Fred in jail or extradited to wherever the United States is these days to face justice. Great side plot with Moira and the kid that misses Gilead. Very happy to see Emily and Rita too.

I think this could shape up to be a good season. I don't know what they are going to do in Season 5 though. Seems like this 10 episode arc would be a good wrap up.[/quote]

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