The Handmaid's Tale

But the very end-ending made me wonder (as June has inevitably led so many other survivors into her dark places now) if we will be coaxed into ending our unwavering support for June and most of her choices.

It was, though, a gratifying season finale in many ways. Left open some very important points (will Luke be able to stay with this version of June? will he let her leave? will they ever get Hannah back?) and yet they clearly ended some things in blunt ways (goodbye, Commander!).

So many questions left to answer in this series (what about Nick? will he get out of Gilead and pair up with June and their daughter? will Gilead ever fall? will babies be able to be conceived normally by most people again?)... but I hope they don't drag everything out for, say, another three or four seasons. It's starting to feel like a natural conclusion could be closer rather than further away. And that's fine with me.

I'm wondering if June will end up going back to Gilead to get Hannah, perhaps aided by Nick, and then all three of them escape back to Canada...

But the very end-ending made me wonder (as June has inevitably led so many other survivors into her dark places now) if we will be coaxed into ending our unwavering support for June and most of her choices.

It was, though, a gratifying season finale in many ways. Left open some very important points (will Luke be able to stay with this version of June? will he let her leave? will they ever get Hannah back?) and yet they clearly ended some things in blunt ways (goodbye, Commander!).

So many questions left to answer in this series (what about Nick? will he get out of Gilead and pair up with June and their daughter? will Gilead ever fall? will babies be able to be conceived normally by most people again?)... but I hope they don't drag everything out for, say, another three or four seasons. It's starting to feel like a natural conclusion could be closer rather than further away. And that's fine with me.

I'm wondering if June will end up going back to Gilead to get Hannah, perhaps aided by Nick, and then all three of them escape back to Canada...

....happy family flashback scenes from the old days as I found they jarred me out of the glorious mire of palpably bleak misogyny and utterly despondent misery. I can score that bog-standard happy sappy bollocks on any telly show, I'm just here to mainline the high-grade misery thank you very much.

Bitterly disappointed in Season 3 though.

The main screenhog handmaid was allowed FAR too much leeway with her insulting public displays of brazenly insubordinate language and her generally insolent comportment. WHERE was Aunt Lydia and her magisterial cattle prod to correct these glib displays of public insouciance? WHERE? ANSWER ME.

Season 4 and Dear Aunt Lydia administered precious little in the way of corporal punishment and bloodthirsty beatings compared to S1. The slut child should have been made to pay dearly for her impudent transgressions. Savage, savage administrations of punitive justice are the righteous path to salvation, that much is inarguable.

• Cranking Bowie's "Suffragette City" as the ladies poisoned the "Commander" wankers at their own rowdy shagfest party? That was just too perfect.
  
  
• The white-bearded Commanders perfectly-executed 180-ethical heel turns are pretty outrageous.
  
  
• How the hell did Liz Moss stay so fat on the starvation diet in Gilead? Like those fat millenials in The Walking Dead, 10 years on the lam and they look like pringles addicts too.
  
  
• When June went to visit preggers Serena I was 80% certain she was going to shiv her in the belly and terminate the Eva Braunian pregnancy. JUST DO IT. FFS just put everyone out of their misery. In her meeting with the Commander after she found out he'd flipped, was also sure she would stab a knitting needle through his eye or something
  
  
• Although was wondering in final episode how come June didnt negotiate for her daughter to be included in the 22 for the prisoner exchange?

OH, FREDDY.

What a glorious grisly denouement for Freddy The Flipper.

Next season will surely open with Serena Joy BACK in Gilead where she's a handmaid clutched in the loving, lysolic embrace of dearest, dearest Aunt Lydia.[/color]

....happy family flashback scenes from the old days as I found they jarred me out of the glorious mire of palpably bleak misogyny and utterly despondent misery. I can score that bog-standard happy sappy bollocks on any telly show, I'm just here to mainline the high-grade misery thank you very much.

Bitterly disappointed in Season 3 though.

The main screenhog handmaid was allowed FAR too much leeway with her insulting public displays of brazenly insubordinate language and her generally insolent comportment. WHERE was Aunt Lydia and her magisterial cattle prod to correct these glib displays of public insouciance? WHERE? ANSWER ME.

Season 4 and Dear Aunt Lydia administered precious little in the way of corporal punishment and bloodthirsty beatings compared to S1. The slut child should have been made to pay dearly for her impudent transgressions. Savage, savage administrations of punitive justice are the righteous path to salvation, that much is inarguable.

• Cranking Bowie's "Suffragette City" as the ladies poisoned the "Commander" wankers at their own rowdy shagfest party? That was just too perfect.
  
  
• The white-bearded Commanders perfectly-executed 180-ethical heel turns are pretty outrageous.
  
  
• How the hell did Liz Moss stay so fat on the starvation diet in Gilead? Like those fat millenials in The Walking Dead, 10 years on the lam and they look like pringles addicts too.
  
  
• When June went to visit preggers Serena I was 80% certain she was going to shiv her in the belly and terminate the Eva Braunian pregnancy. JUST DO IT. FFS just put everyone out of their misery. In her meeting with the Commander after she found out he'd flipped, was also sure she would stab a knitting needle through his eye or something
  
  
• Although was wondering in final episode how come June didnt negotiate for her daughter to be included in the 22 for the prisoner exchange?

OH, FREDDY.

What a glorious grisly denouement for Freddy The Flipper.

Next season will surely open with Serena Joy BACK in Gilead where she's a handmaid clutched in the loving, lysolic embrace of dearest, dearest Aunt Lydia.[/color]