Thread for discussion of the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Aargh! Messed up the coding...Don't read the above post if you're following along. Sorry.

I give up.

Tried to post this a couple of times the night of, but I've just learned that you can't hide things with paragraph breaks. So once more, just to keep it in this thread.

Three things that made me laugh in the season finale:

-- Moira referring to Serena as "his Viking-ass wife"
-- Lawrence: "It was worth a shot"
-- getting the pandemic in there: "Yes, Fred--we can Zoom"

Spoilers: 1) The big revenge scene was worth the build-up. (I knew that somehow, Fred and his "it" would be parting ways.) Only thing I didn't like was bringing back Lesley Gore on the soundtrack. I get the (too literal) relevance, obviously, but I'm not crazy about the song, and I think they could have done much better. 2) Found the ending somewhat confusing, or at least that no words were exchanged--Luke was able to just look at June and realize that she was heading back to Gilead? 3) Does June now target the Viking-ass wife?

The guy who plays Tuello is good.

Praise be that this season is over. It's gotten so vague and contradictory and repetitive. Obviously I'll still watch the final season but I don't feel like anyone's actually doing anything clever or useful?

Didn't realize this had resumed (they're five episodes in)--evidently I'm the last person on this board who'll make the effort to finish. I've got Atlanta to catch up with too; will probably go back and forth.

Me neither. And it's not even the final season - there's a 6th planned?!

Seriously? I just assumed this was it.

First episode of S5 wasn't bad--better than today's Jays game, for sure. I found S4 exceedingly convoluted, but it looks like it's now settled into a very focused revenge drama, headed for a showdown between the mom and the mother-to-be. (Or at least I thought so till news of this sixth season.)

Four episodes into S5, and I think it's a definite rebound from the last one or two. The ending of E2 was one the show's best ever. Eerie cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" in E4.

It's not started in the UK yet but I think is coming soon.

23rd october

If you had soured as much as I had, give the new season at least two episodes.

i never got far into S3. premise too exhausting to me, better served by a two season series.

E5 takes a song that Tarantino completely wasted in Pulp Fiction and does it right.

Finished E7, so caught up. How sappy you find it (if there's a "you" left) will depend. I found it moving--I've been waiting almost since the beginning for something similar, probably the only reason other than inertia I've stuck around.

I'm almost caught up--two episodes left in S5--and I've found this a much more satisfying watch than a lot of you apparently did. The relationship between June and Serena has evolved in interesting directions over the course of the series.

I'm finally reading The Testaments so no spoilers please but I'm curious as to how the TV show was written with some of the plot points I've read so far (that weren't in The Handmaid's Tale book)? e.g. baby Nicole. Did Margaret Attwood direct the story for the tv show or was The Testaments out before the later seasons of the tv show was written? I can't remember when each came out.

Haven't read the book, so I don't know, but your revive reminded me to check on S6; with the strike, now pushed back to next year.

Our third-last episode of a four-year project: pop music in Mr. Robot, Atlanta, The Handmaid's Tale, Velvet Goldmine, and Georgy Girl. (A mixed bag, yes.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA0eBoGIF4

Lots of competition, but this one has my favourite zone-out in a series filled with them (and why I'm posting here): where I grope around trying to remember the term for the women in The Handmaid's Tale who are held captive and impregnated.