#MicroblogMondays: The Handmaid's Tale flavor finale

** CONTAINS SPOILERS** 

Last nighttime was episode 10, the flavor finale of "The Handmaid's Tale" on Bravo Canada. It ended just every bit the mass did -- as well as if that was the halt of the series, I would take away maintain been satisfied. I rather liked the ambiguity of the book's ending -- that nosotros were allowed to shape our ain persuasion every bit to whether June/Offred stepped into the darkness, or into the light, every bit she herself seat it.

That said, I am looking forrad to the adjacent season. Generally, I don't similar it when motion painting or TV adaptations of a mass I loved brand meaning changes or expand beyond the master copy material. But thus far, that's worked pretty good for "The Handmaid's Tale." The fact that Margaret Atwood is a "consulting producer" on the present is a proficient sign, I think.

The human relationship betwixt June/Offred & Serena Joy, the Commander's wife, was at the centre of this episode.  As usual, I swung betwixt feeling lamentable for (& empathizing with) Serena Joy as well as yelling "YOU BITCH!!"  at her on the TV screen, lol.  When Fred told her "Go to your room" as well as she left -- only non earlier telling him Offred's babe was non his as well as knocking the Scrabble board & pieces off his desk -- I was cheering her on. (Although, every bit fifty-fifty she herself admitted, she helped write around of the rules that are right away used to oppress her.)(The expect on Fred's human face upward when he hears that Warren's married adult woman asked for the harshest penalty for his extracurricular activities alongside Janine was priceless. You could almost take away heed him thinking, "Uh oh...")  I could fifty-fifty sympathise her wound over discovering that Fred had been taking Offred on "outings" beyond the monthly "ceremony" (although it didn't seem fair to accept it out on Offred every bit she did).

But when she showed June/Offred her immature lady -- piece June/Offred was locked inwards the car, screaming & clawing at the windows -- able to expect at, only non to touching on or utter to her immature lady -- as well as thus cooly got dorsum into the automobile & resumed her knitting alongside the threat, "As long every bit MY babe is OK, yours volition survive OK too"  -- she deserved every curse give-and-take that June hurled at her through the window (along alongside the ones I was shouting at the screen, lol). (That was something that went beyond the mass material... I call back Serena Joy showing Offred a photograph of Hannah, only non making whatsoever explicit threats.)

For me, i of the telephone substitution lingering images from this episode was Serena Joy prostrating herself on the flooring inwards front end of Offred's developing pregnancy test, praying for a positive result. OK, I know many of us take away maintain prayed over a pee stick ourselves. ;)  But it brought dwelling to me her desperation to take away maintain a child, as well as how high the stakes were. In a footing where women are alone valued for their fertility as well as their human relationship to the men inwards their lives (if Serena Joy weren't married to the Commander, what would her condition survive inwards Gilead??), what else is at that spot for her?  If y'all desire to seat it inwards the Biblical linguistic communication used past times Gileadeans (terminology??), it struck me that Serena (& Gilead) had made an idol (a imitation idol?) of fertility, of pregnancy (albeit non of the handmaids themselves, who were endowed alongside these powers & carrying these babies...), & was worshipping at its feet. Isn't that something of a sin itself?

I was also struck past times the scene where Fred comes to Serena every bit she is setting upward the bassinet inwards the plant nursery (already!! -- the pee stick is barely dry...) as well as promises her that i time the babe is born as well as Offred is sent away to her adjacent handmaid posting, "we'll survive a family."  This is something that Janine shouted to Commander Warren every bit she teetered atop the span inwards the finally episode: that he promised her they would accept the babe & run away together as well as "be a family." In Gilead terms -- as well as inwards the minds of many today, withal -- "family" equals man, adult woman & kid (preferably children, plural). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pair lonely is non considered a "real" family. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 adult woman is non a "real" adult woman if she doesn't take away maintain a child.

Gilead may survive a fictional creation -- only every bit Atwood said when she wrote it (30+ years ago!), everything inwards it has happened somewhere inwards the footing at around signal inwards history. And it's withal happening today (more than ever, it seems, inwards around ways), fifty-fifty inwards North America.

This is beyond a "microblog" post, only it's what I'm thinking nigh today. ;) Have whatsoever of y'all been watching? Thoughts?  (Any Emmy nomination/award predictions?? -- I mean value at that spot are quite a few deserving performances here, most particularly Elisabeth Moss every bit June/Offred.)

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