#MicroblogMondays: Watching The Handmaid's Tale

Like many of you, I'm sure, I've been watching the novel tv set serial "here). In the U.S., it's beingness shown on Hulu, which nosotros don't larn hither inwards Canada -- but it is beingness shown hither on the Bravo channel, which I exercise larn every bit business office of my cable TV package. Hulu releases novel episodes on Wednesdays, currently upward to episode 4;  Bravo broadcasts the demo on Sundays as well as nosotros but saw episode iii final night.

There's a lot inwards both the mass & the TV demo that I tin relate to -- as well as non but because (even though the mass was written over thirty years ago) thus many of the events & themes depicted appear to go pulled at ane time from the headlines. :(

For ane thing, the demo is filmed inwards Toronto;  I oftentimes recognize the buildings inwards the background (particularly inwards the "before" segments, where June/Offred is out & close inwards the city) as well as I tin brand a proficient approximate at which business office of the metropolis the Waterfords' work solid is in. Which makes the story all the to a greater extent than eerie for me -- if you lot honor yourself thinking "it could conduct house here" every bit you lot watch, I tin REALLY painting it happening HERE, because it already has, on the TV screen...!

So many of the infertility themes resonate too. Mel posted recently close identifying alongside Serena Joy, her resentment of Offred as well as her fertility, as well as her humiliation over her presence inwards her bedroom. This week's episode (#3) had me wincing when Serena Joy & Martha were hovering over Offred, whose menstruum is belatedly (they appear to know it earlier she does...!) -- giving her extra nutrient & flowers as well as quizzing her close pregnancy symptoms, preparing a plant nursery (already!!), their faces amount of promise & expectation -- as well as and then the disappointment when she tells them she's got her period. OK, I didn't accept anyone waiting breathlessly on the final result of my cycle (besides me & dh), because nosotros never told anyone when nosotros were going through handling -- as well as I was never shoved to the flooring & banished to my room when a pregnancy failed to materialize -- but the feeling of beingness watched hopefully yesteryear others for whatsoever signs of pregnancy (the endless hints...!); the feeling that I was letting people downwards when calendar month later month, yr later year, at that topographic point was no baby; the feeling of beingness sidelined, dismissed, ignored (if non precisely outright punished) for my childlessness, my lack of fertility, my failure to reproduce -- all that certain seemed familiar.  Contrast the experience of Offred beingness punished as well as sent to her room (hidden, unseen, unvalued), spell Janine/Ofwarren (poor, deluded Janine...), who did create a babe for her Commander & his wife, gets H2O ice cream...!

There's thus much to a greater extent than I could tell close this show, but this is supposed to go a microblog post, thus I mean value I'll halt now. But I'll likely provide to "The Handmaid's Tale" inwards hereafter posts!

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