We've been sent good weather today.
I‘m really sad about Omar and his family.
When she showed up in Omar's apartment, i knew it was going to end up like this. :(
"I have done something wrong. Something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth, I might as well be dead. Please, God, let Hannah forget me. Let me forget me." - Offred
This episode was so hard to watch.
Woah what a surprise. I thought they’d hanged Nick for all this. It should have been easy to replace him. Maybe he stayed because he’s with the eyes. Although I’m also wondering why they didn’t see this as an act of betrayal.
Gosh Serena needs to take it easy. Doesn’t any of these “mothers” know that stress on the mothers body and mind can cause miscarriages and all kinds of shit?
I had to pause it after the hang scene...I mean the show had tough scenes before but this one just got me
I still kinda hope we see Omar again
- after the previous episode
Well, fuck.
And June is broken again. Consciently, I know she has to snap out of it - otherwise there wouldn't be much to tell - but I can't help feeling trapped with her, seeing no reason to hope for a better tomorrow after she came so close to escaping it only to have it blow up in her face spectacularly like that, and what's worse, how she was lucky compared to most everyone else that helped her in any way they could. I can't begin to imagine how that guilt stacks over those she already had over Hannah and her mother.
Review by Aniela KrajewskaVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2018-05-09T18:50:38Z
Last week's episode fucked me up so hard. This one did too, although in a slightly different way.
First of all, a little piece of advice to Serena and Aunt Lydia: if you care about this pregnancy so badly and want June to carry to term, then maybe it's not the greatest idea to try to strangle her or show her the body of the guy who helped her and force her to admit that it's her fault. Just a thought.
There is a weird amount of sexual energy between Serena and June. Every time Serena confronts June, it's like she's 2 seconds away from hate fucking her against a wall. I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that's genuinely the vibe that she gives off.
Speaking of Serena, this is a character that I literally think about all the time. I read an interview with Yvonne Strahovski once where she really nailed this on the head: Serena is an incredibly intelligent, presumably well-educated woman who had a successful career before Gilead. And now she's trapped in a world - a world she helped create - where she can't work, can't read, can't be in charge of anything and her opinion on most things doesn't matter. She's like a caged animal with nothing stimulating to do all day. To her, this baby will be an escape from her terribly boring reality. I'm sure she wants to be a mother, but I think a part of her also craves something to occupy her mind and that's what motherhood will provide her with.
(Sidenote: all the horrible religious bullshit and ritualistic raping aside, I'd rather drown myself than live in a world where your only entertainment is sitting around all day and knitting. I would die so fucking fast in Gilead, you have no idea.)
And no, that ending didn't give me anxiety at all, why do you ask?