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Spoilers The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)

I've finally been able to see the last episode.

So Hannah is just as institutionalized as the Handmaids. The movie version had her adopted by a family, after being brainwashed to reject her original family.

Trivial observation: In all the scenes where Offred sits down to a meal, she's never allowed to finish it.

So now I'm wondering what Rita is going to do with all those letters.
 
Bravo reran the first 10 episodes on New Year's Day (thankfully right after the 52-hour Downton Abbey marathon).

EDIT: Correction, I meant they started to rerun them on New Year's Day. It was actually the first 3 episodes and then two more each night following that.

Hopefully they fix the mistake they made in the scene where Serena took Offred to see Hannah. It's four years later (given the 9-month pregnancy Janine had plus the several months since then), so they should have used a different child to play Hannah. Seeing her look exactly the same age and height after a span of years took me right out of the story into a "WTF?" moment.
 
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Oh read the book way back then!!
It still makes my blood boil!!
Humans are shit!
But good book...and it sure pissed me off big time....
 
Season 2 opens after the end of the novel (if you discount the appendices). Margaret Atwood herself said they were doing things she never envisioned for her characters, and approves of them. So I'm really looking forward to this.
 
Ridcully said:
Oh read the book way back then!!
It still makes my blood boil!!
Humans are shit!
But good book...and it sure pissed me off big time....
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The ending of the book pissed me off back then. No resolution and too vague.
 
T'Bonz said:
The ending of the book pissed me off back then. No resolution and too vague.
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That's how some Canadian fiction is. :shrug: You can't always have a happy ending, or even a definitive ending. If you read the back of the book you realize that it's likely that Offred did finally escape and record her story. But in the meantime North America went to hell and the aboriginal Canadians picked up the pieces.

There's nothing wrong with the ending of the novel. It's provided discussion and fanfic fodder for many years, and is required reading in many high school and university English courses here.

Even the movie went a step too far, in my view. I'd have been perfectly happy without the final scene. Leave it unresolved, and let people debate What Happens Next (and why).
 
Oh I like the unresolved ending ok...but all those things that happend.....I still remember if the world ever came to that...would it even be worth being here then??
 
Ridcully said:
Oh I like the unresolved ending ok...but all those things that happend.....I still remember if the world ever came to that...would it even be worth being here then??
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Well, I presumably wouldn't need to worry since I'm in Canada and my understanding of the novel is that Gilead stops at the 49th parallel.

Of course in RL, Gilead wouldn't give a damn about observing the niceties of the 49th parallel and would just steamroll right over the border and take whatever and whoever they wanted.
 
Has anybody heard anything about a non-Hulu release? I know the Netflix stuff seems to take about over a year to come out on Blu-Ray/DVD, but I can't remember if I've ever seen any Hulu Originals on disc.
 
Timewalker said:
Well, I presumably wouldn't need to worry since I'm in Canada and my understanding of the novel is that Gilead stops at the 49th parallel.

Of course in RL, Gilead wouldn't give a damn about observing the niceties of the 49th parallel and would just steamroll right over the border and take whatever and whoever they wanted.
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I'm trying to remember if we ever learn if Gilead is all of the U.S. or just the East. Presumably if it is only a portion of the U.S. then they just don't have the military to push northward, especially if they are fighting battles on the western front.
 
JD said:
I know that, I was just wondering if there's been any word of a release date for this.
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Does Hulu usually release their series on DVD season by season? How often do they rerun their series?

Bravo has run it 3 times now, including the original showing.

I hope they won't be obnoxious about it and make Canadian viewers wait a week and a half behind the American showing of each episode. It wasn't such a big deal about spoilers for the first season since I've read the novel umpteen times and saw the movie numerous times as well. But this is brand-new territory now, and I don't want spoilers (but by the time I have seen each episode, the rest of you will have moved on to the next one...).
 
Hulu is a streaming service, so once the episodes are up they stay up, there are no repeats. I'm not sure about Hulu originals coming out on DVD, that's why I was asking.
 
In that case, the answer is probably "never." After all, if someone is watching a DVD, they don't have their eyes glued to the website and the ads.

Of course they don't seem to give any part of a rodent's anatomy about the non-American viewers. Why should Canadians want to see this show when we want, rather than depend on Bravo's schedule? After all, it's only based on a Canadian author's work, filmed in Canada, and employs a good number of Canadian actors and tech people.

Nah, we wouldn't be interested in anything like that. :rolleyes:
 
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