The Handmaids Tale
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Lets start at the very beginning.
Is it the worlds biggest coincidence?
You didnt even need to ask.
Antiheroines these days, huh?
Its a shame the series doesnt linger in Chicago a little longer.
The coast of California, the Gulf, and the Canadian border are all held by the resistance.
Los Angeles is a nuclear wasteland.
Vermont is, as we all could have guessed, a disputed territory.
But is the resistance one entity?
Steven mentions the Nighthawks, a shoot-em-up crew that guns down Gilead soldiers.
So what else is out there?
How many factions are there?
What methods besides train raids are they employing to fight Gilead?
Is there communication with the American government in exile?
The world Atwood designed is so rich and complex and vast, why not show us more?
Aunt Lydia has been exiled to her personal hell, which also happens to be my personal heaven.
She wants to scold and cattle prod and order bodily harm, not play Bingo!
This is one of the highly uneven character deviations that makes me want to rage at the writing staff.
Make it make sense.
Commander Lawrence, Nick, and Aunt Lydia are a little double-dealing triangle.
Lawrence wants his seat back whether for purely personal reasons or to help June from the inside is unclear.
Nick wants to use his power to help June to safety.
Aunt Lydia wants that taser, baby.
So they strike a twisted three-way trade.
Lawrence will give her June, when and if shes found.
How does this build the moral high ground Lawrence pushed for earlier?
How does it even make sense from a tactical perspective?
(Reader, it does not.)
And thats when the bombs start to fall.
Now heres why I degrade into a puddle of mush.
Nothing about this should have worked, especially on a cruel, jaded critic like me.
Moira should not have been on that street.
June should not have miraculously survived a carpet-bombing with just a concussion.
And yet I cried.
Maybe its because Coldplay can write a tear-banger.
Now, where is Janine?
