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The Handmaid's Tale - Hulu Original (**Spoilers**)

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    #32
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,285 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    This is a truly amazing piece of art I can't believe there is only episode left this season It will be a long year waiting for season two.



    If this show and cast do not clean up at the award shows over the coming twelve months it's a total joke.


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    #33
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    I've only seen two episodes so far, it seems very visually appealing.


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    #34
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Flawless season so far and with just the one episode to go, I'm expecting it to be a cracking finale.


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    #35
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Great show. Really enjoying it so far.


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    #36
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,684 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Sees DUP in the UK.
    Watches handmaid's tale...
    Worries!


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    #37
    whatever76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭whatever76


    watching on Ch4 pace so on 3rd episode -
    can anyone explain what Operation they gave to Ofglen - she can still have a child I gather but not sure what exactly they did to her ?


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    #38
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    whatever76 wrote: »
    watching on Ch4 pace so on 3rd episode -
    can anyone explain what Operation they gave to Ofglen - she can still have a child I gather but not sure what exactly they did to her ?
    The operation on Ofglen was FGM.


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    #39
    whatever76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭whatever76


    mzungu wrote: »
    The operation on Ofglen was FGM.

    :rolleyes: - doh!! thanks ...


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    #40
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Awful :(
    I guessed by what The Matron said to her.


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    #41
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Frank O. Pinion wrote: »
    This doesn't look very exciting. It seems like one of those "sci-fi" things, where the story is set in the future or alternate timeline, but it somehow resembles a period in our history. It looks downbeat and depressing, based on flicking through the episodes, not the trailer. Does this series have any "oomph"?

    The lead, Elisabeth Moss, doesn't impress me. I don't remember really liking anything with her in it. Maybe, The One I Love (2014), I guess.
    On the contrary, it takes "stuff that happens to (other, foreign) people today, and places it in the context of 'what if that happened to us'" It's powerful stuff, and brilliantly handled.

    It's not alternate timeline. It's alternate geography.


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    #42
    whatever76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭whatever76


    Surreptitious wrote: »
    Awful :(
    I guessed by what The Matron said to her.

    I know - frightening !


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    #43
    Ms Doubtfire1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Ms Doubtfire1


    thanks guys - was looking for something decent to binge on..now I know where to go.:D


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    #44
    Triceratops Ballet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Triceratops Ballet


    Ms Doubtfire1 wrote:
    thanks guys - was looking for something decent to binge on..now I know where to go.

    If u wait til tomorrow you'll have all 10 episodes


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    #45
    whatever99
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭whatever99


    I saw the film version years ago, the one with Natasha Richardson, and thought it was really good. The series is excellent too, and very unsettling. I didn't find the film as unsettling, and I don't think that's all down to how well it's made (although, that is a big part of it - the music in the series is great and very atmospheric, for example), but some of it is pertinent to the times we are living in. You'd almost think it could happen!!


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    #46
    Triceratops Ballet
    Registered Users Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Triceratops Ballet


    whatever99 wrote: »
    but some of it is pertinent to the times we are living in. You'd almost think it could happen!!

    That's the thing about it, to me I can see how we get from where we are as a society now, to the situation in the show. It doesn't seem too far off and dystopian to me, it seems maybe like an alternate timeline for our world!!


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    #47
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,285 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Just finished the season and I think that might just be the most perfect start to finish season of TV I have ever watched an amazing job done by all involved.


    From the acting to the soundtrack to the directing I don't think I can find a single fault in any episode.


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    #48
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Yeah, fantastic series and faithful adaptation while building on the novel... Can't wait for Season 2 where I'll be completely in the dark, having no source material beyond this point...


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    #49
    WoolyJumper
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭WoolyJumper


    The final episode was absolutely brilliant. So tense yet satisfying at the same time.


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    #50
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,379 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    dottie_lottie wrote:
    It doesn't seem too far off and dystopian to me, it seems maybe like an alternate timeline for our world!!

    Atwood herself refers to THM as speculative rather than dystopian fiction.


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    #51
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Just finished. Season was done well.

    Notable mention to Episode 3 for shock value ending.

    Top episode that got me in the feels was 7. The one with this song at the end:



    Overall, the setup.. (I'm guessing was based on the literature).. was alright. Though it might be a sign I've watched a lot of dystopian stuff in that I thought some of the world building could've been stronger.

    Final episode:
    I was looking at the act of rebellion and thinking: NOT GOOD NOT GOOD!

    Like.. either Aunt Lydia would be made an example of .. or they'd slowly torture Janine until someone killed her. Cos of that I was all like.. someone just do a mercy killing.

    Anyway then the ending eased up on that idea as I'm thinking we won't see what happened to them and instead we'll get to see more of the world (probably more bad stuff). Saying that though.. they could do a Horror reveal later to have a big impact reveal of what happened to the Janine and the group who wouldn't stone her.


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    #52
    Rfrip
    Registered Users Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭Rfrip


    Just finished. The best tv series Ive ever watched hands down


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    #53
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Yeah, just finished it there too. Can't think of any tv show that had a better first season.


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    #54
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,285 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Alexis Bledel
    will be returning as a series regular for season 2.


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    #55
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Well, I can't imagine how dark that could go. I can make a few guesses though!


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    #56
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Just finished it there, having watched it over the last few weeks. It was excellent, far better than I thought it would be and, come those TV awards, easily my pick for Best New Show (and hopefully can throw in a vote for Moss too).

    The cast was very strong, hitting some real lump-in-throat moments. Moss, who I'm a fan of, has done her strongest work here. The scene in the finale when she sees her daughter and goes from sadness to fury at Serena was as good as any I've seen this year.

    I think the manner in which it's filmed really helped - great soundtrack and a sort of edgy camera work that really grounded it. It made it feel all too plausible. Downbeat for the most part sure, but there's always that glimmer of hope.


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    #57
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,285 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Margaret Atwood herself wants Drake to have a cameo in season 2.


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    #58
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,780 ✭✭✭sporina


    I have a query about episode 5 - faithful.. why did Offred initiate getting it on with Nick? Did I miss something?
    Please no spoilers for future episodes as I am watching behind time
    thanks


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    #59
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    sporina wrote: »
    I have a query about episode 5 - faithful.. why did Offred initiate getting it on with Nick? Did I miss something?
    Please no spoilers for future episodes as I am watching behind time
    thanks

    At this point in the show, my thinking had been one or a combination of:
    - She saw his gun. Working access to the gun seemed a good idea as it would give her a lot of options for action.
    - She wanted to exercise some control over her life given she was now a prisioner in most other aspects of her life.
    - She wanted to exercise some control over Nick and thought he might bond with her through sex.
    - She wanted sex.


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    #60
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,780 ✭✭✭sporina


    Slydice wrote: »
    At this point in the show, my thinking had been one or a combination of:
    - She saw his gun. Working access to the gun seemed a good idea as it would give her a lot of options for action.
    - She wanted to exercise some control over her life given she was now a prisioner in most other aspects of her life.
    - She wanted to exercise some control over Nick and thought he might bond with her through sex.
    - She wanted sex.

    ok...

    thanks..

    but does anyone actually know the answer for defo? i have the feeling that i (we) missed something


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    #61
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    sporina wrote: »
    ok...

    thanks..

    but does anyone actually know the answer for defo? i have the feeling that i (we) missed something

    Do you want to know about future episodes?:)


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