The Handmaids Tale
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The Handmaids Taleis, to put it far too lightly, often difficult to watch.
(Some of you poor souls didnt make it past the first seasons ominous ending.)
When dark art follows you into lighter times, its former meaning sometimes turns into an affront.
Vows isnt an especially violent episode.
Will June get caught?
She got that old zip back.
And yet here they were, ready to offer her to butchers!
Oh, the acting!
Moss and Wiley perfectly execute on the stakes here.
The fury, the shouting, Junes shifting blame its all exquisite.
If I dont go back now, she shouts at Moira, Hannah is gone forever.
The flashbacks with Moira were sweet touches, reminders of their fierce love and complicated friendship.
But it was the scene in which June tells Luke shes pregnant that hit me like a brick.
Her rush to tell him the news, even at the expense of her plan, just rang true.
The Indestructible Mother is a dangerous trope that insists women can and should absorb any blow for their babies.
Giving birth or adopting or sheltering a child doesnt bestow some cloak of immortality on parents.
Im sorry I dont have her … Im sorry its just me.
Now June needs to work her magic from across the border.
