Is this worse than not seeing one another?Īnother car pulls up, shouting, a confrontation. How could she send her back to her Martha? How could she bear to hear Hannah say: “I have new parents now”? Hannah’s tears come as she says in a small voice: “Mommy.” They are ripped apart again. The reunion with Hannah was horribly affecting. This week and last have been unexpectedly hard watches. This is Trump’s caged children, forgetting their parents. Traumatised, she doesn’t remember her mum at first. She breaks and runs to her, but Hannah is afraid and hides behind the Martha/Agnes. “Ten minutes,” she is told as she turns to see a pink-cloaked Hannah playing on the floor. In the big, empty house in the snow, dust sheets flicker in the wind and all is white and shades of pale grey. Although seeing her beloved daughter again is everything June wants, the way it is given is gut-churningly awful. These people really are sick with their own power. Photograph: George Kraychyk/HuluĪfter the rape, Fred is, perhaps through shame and guilt, inspired to offer June an olive branch and arranges a “surprise” for her. Lydia (Ann Dowd) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski). She cries and tries to stop the noise with her hands. She knows he’s sweet on Offred and she’s raging. “Don’t you care? Why don’t you care?” she entreats Nick afterwards. But snog him she does, just in time for Nick to see. However strong youthful hormones might be, adultery is severely punished in Gilead and she is a married woman. A God-fearing girl so brazenly snogging a guard in a well-lit courtyard – it doesn’t add up. I think it’s the worst bit of the whole series.Įden’s infidelity with Isaac seems extremely unlikely. Serena holds her wrists and June goes into her own head, thinking about bees and flowers again. Serena and Fred lock eyes over a terrified June and he penetrates her. I don’t think we needed to see it, but the director has other ideas. The Waterford’s Macbeth-like pact culminates in a horrific assault on the handmaid. In the scenes leading up to June’s rape, the growing sense of dread is hard to stomach.
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Serena looks humiliated and June pays her back generously for demanding she leave after the birth. Offred’s “I’m sorry, Mrs Waterford” when false labour is diagnosed couldn’t be less sincere. Lydia arrives with the local handmaids and starts barking instructions while Serena, dressed in a white maternity smock, is in genuine bliss, her face totally at peace for the first time. Serena kneels in front of Offred, for all the neighbours to see, and prays over her belly. Nick takes Offred into the Waterford house as the snow falls and the two smile at each other, knowing their baby is coming.
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In the market, as she remonstrates with Emily, June feels the contractions start. As Roy falls to the ground, clearly in cardiac distress, Emily watches dispassionately, saying she really can’t help as she’s supposed to lie on her back afterwards.īefore leaving the room, she stamps on his lifeless nuts. Her talk of bees and flowers barely disguises the bitter rage. In voiceover, Offred tells us how the women endure these monthly rapes.
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Has this knowledge irked you as much as it has me?īack in gauzy, sunlit hell, Emily gets a happy finish to the appalling ordeal of the Ceremony when her commander, Roy, drops down dead just after ejaculating.
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Well, now what’s Offred going to do? We know she doesn’t evade capture for long, because there’s a series three. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes. Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK.