“Do you have an irony deficiency?”
I’m not on board with the cruelty of the moment, but I couldn’t help but find this line highly amusing!
'Look at what happened to Fred, look at where you are now.' I can almost hear Michael Kelso shouting: Burn!
Finally we got a better peek at Lawrence's conscience, and it was both enlightening and scary. Now we know for sure that though he's painfully aware and bitterly regrets it, he doesn't want to just "go back". That may be the most "gaze into the abyss" moment we've had and it's terrifying to think that there is no before - that the whole Radio Free America "we are still here" is almost a pipe dream and that even when Gilead falls, some things changed forever.
Meanwhile, I'm displeased that they didn't even let me enjoy June's moment of clarity "I guess I'm a better christian than you".
It remains to be seen if Mark can deliver on his promise or if there's yet more heartbreak coming our way.
This was a decent episode.
goddamn every single person put their whole ussy into this one
I kinda hoped June finally was on good terms with Serena, before and in this episode, but when she was testifying last season, she actually was complaining that she forced her to fuck Nick, but that was consensual, wasn't it?
I rate this episode “Even the Wheelers of fortune can run over you" out of 10.
They made it kind of obvious that Hannah is going to die during the raid, if not on 9th episode then in 10th
Lawrence is Mr. Deng Xiaoping, pragmatic, ambitious, and politically flexible.
Again, the highlights were June and Serena (we're not friends) and June and Lawrence.
So New Bethlehem's supposed to be "true" Gilead without handmaids, without those awful punishments etc. But still an autocracy, albeit one where women are even allowed to read books and keep diaries. Because Gilead for all its violence and cruelty still did some things right, mainly create many babies. And Lawrence wants June to live there, side-by-side with her 12-year old married daughter (because change takes time and at least Nicole won't have to be married off as a child-bride)... what the hell?
But I understand June considering this - she gave up fleeing at the end of season 2 for the chance to get to Hannah. So, she once before put her daughter in front of her own freedom... while Luke has never been put in this situation before.
What's more interesting is the time-frame: So, now we know that Luke's been in Toronto for 7 years (and done nothing, as June put it). Let's add some time before that for the beginnings of Gilead, i.e. while the US system degenerated and Luke, June and Hannah were forced to go into hiding, so that makes perhaps 8 years, Hannah's now 12. And the world seemingly stood by and watched.
Lawrence's a fundamentalist - he wants to see his ideas realized, but I'm not sure if he's able to see the people as living breathing human-beings instead of chess-pieces on his little board. And Lawrence claiming to feel guilty about how Gilead turned out... well, first of all, he didn't save humankind, the US is not the whole world, after all, and secondly, he doesn't regret the notion of Gilead per se, just some facets which, as we've seen in previous episodes, already change because there's a generation coming that doesn't know anything else other than Gilead. We now have fertile wives, so what exactly is his plan going to change?
Serena gets another taste of her own medicine. How she complains to June about the atrocity of having her child ripped away from her... well... are you kidding? And June leaves her with the advice to be with her child, be subservient but keep planning. What's next?
Again, who are the Wheelers? I mean how do they end up with Serena's child? Did immigration simply give Noah to them?
I really like this show, but, I really hope it could be end sooner.
I mean, even me at age just 28, i could watch many of kind of horror movies and shows, but once I started to play this show, too much emotions keep attack my heart, hard to take. I was wanted to share it to my mum, but after all these seasons, I don't know if she could easily accept things happened in this show.
Really, I love this show, just, less suffer, of June, and all women like her.
Btw, Serena is my favorite character in this show, because June's path of this show is clearly, since beginning, but Serena, too many mind changing. there's just two ep. left of this season, so I think there's one season more, I expecting and believing Serena would do something amazing.
Anyway, back to the beginning of my comment, plz make Season 6 as the last season of THE HANDMAID'S TALE :(
at the end with Hannah did they bomb it......
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Serena is a very complex character and Strahovski’s acting is so good. Despite the monster she was, I'm still sad for Serena and somehow rooting for her. Tit for tat is OK, and karma is a bitch, but yeah, no woman deserves the cruelty of being a handmaid. She was already dangerous before, now I can't imagine how vengeful she will become. I just hope she won't go rouge and make women suffer again out of spite.
And what's very special about "saving Hannah" operation? I mean, are June and Luke the only parents with a kid in Gilead? Why not save other kids? They were very hesitant to go against Gilead, now a huge military operation to save a kid? Something seems off, but we'll see.