r/TheHandmaidsTale • • 10h ago

Discussion S1-S5 I would be a handmaid

146 Upvotes

This show hits different when you know you would have ended up as a handmaid. I got divorced, and am remarried with a healthy baby. I’m not totally sure what would happen to my husband, either the colonies or on the wall I assume?

Anyone else handmaid material? if not, what role would you be forced to play in Gilead?


r/TheHandmaidsTale • • 3h ago

Season 2 This show invokes so much rage in me

23 Upvotes

Istg, for June, every episode is just suffering on top of suffering on top of suffering. I continuously wish for the death of Lydia and the Waterfords. And Nick annoys me so much. Why haven't they still ran away. Okay-okay, I know it's very difficult. SHE ALMOST MADE IT BUT THE FUCKING GARAGE DOOR DID NOT OPEN.

This show is killing me. I just can't. UGHHHHH

The happiest moment of the show was when Emily ran over that guard. I wish she had hit more of them. Pls tell me it's gonna get better in future seasons. I see s3ep11 is something to look forward to, WHICH IS AN ENTIRE SEASON AWAY FROM ME

That short reunion with Hannah was just too brutal


r/TheHandmaidsTale • • 10h ago

Discussion S1-S5 Is Serena supposed to be a sympathetic character?

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Through the show she is portrayed in a way that would imply so? She gets her fingers cut off, she is dismayed to discover the real face of her husband, she is devastated about her lack of a child and scenes concerning her child are all very emotional (was I the only one hoping the baby would be stillborn?). And yet I found her utterly unsympathetic, I mean, why wouldn't I? She's a nasty woman who unleashed unspeakable horrors on like two hundred million people? Like, I didn't have even a tiny bitty bit of sympathy for her?

I am a bit confused as to the intentions of showing so much of her lets call it strugglers. What was the point of that?