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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on May 9, 2018 18:07:57 GMT
The second season of The Handmaid’s Tale will receive its UK premiere on Channel 4 on Sunday May 20th at 9pm.
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Post by cakewalk on May 9, 2018 19:32:07 GMT
Thanks for the heads up about the date , Dame. I'd seen a couple of ads for it, but they both only said 'Coming soon'. I assumed it would be on Sundays like the previous series, the question was when!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 21:59:41 GMT
And season 3 has been confirmed.
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Post by cakewalk on May 9, 2018 22:02:22 GMT
It gets better and better! Cheers pattery!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 22:05:35 GMT
Apparently American audiences have doubled over season 1, so they decided very quickly.
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Post by marion on May 21, 2018 11:47:28 GMT
I recorded this last night as it clashed with other shows and +1 went on a bit late. I hope it maintains its quality! May watch it today but also have Jeremy Thorpe to watch and loads of backed up House and Dr Blake!!!!! I need an extra day!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 16:55:27 GMT
A harrowing start to the new series. I felt quite queasy at times.
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Post by cakewalk on May 22, 2018 18:44:57 GMT
Still as gripping as before. And I don't care that the scriptwriters have taken it beyond the actual book. IMO it was asking to be made.
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Post by geometryman on May 22, 2018 22:42:24 GMT
Yes, a good start, picking up precisely where series 1 left off, in turn filled with terror, hopelessness and nailbiting excitement. Margaret Atwood was involved with the production which hopefully won't stray too far from something she might have written herself.
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Post by cakewalk on May 22, 2018 23:03:26 GMT
I would think writing an actual new book on her own would probably take years so her thoughts for the first book which seemed able to take the story further she hasn't explored so is happy to leave it in the hands of the new writers (although it not actually hers)
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Post by kabuki on May 24, 2018 8:17:22 GMT
Great drama. And so beautifully filmed. That scarlet dresses of the handmaids are stunning against the other more muted shades.
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Post by marion on May 24, 2018 11:48:48 GMT
I thought episode 1 was terrific and I was very surprised at the immediate development as I was expecting something else to have happened. (When Rev Curry was banging on about the balm of Gilead in his sermon I kept thinking of this book rather than the balm.)
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Post by goodhelenstar on May 25, 2018 18:05:42 GMT
It was very dark. I thought the threat of executing so many Handmaids and thereby losing a large number of viable wombs was bound to be an empty one – I'd have thought it more likely, though less visually stunning in terms of cinematography, to execute the ringleader for real. It's generally assumed that Offred / June was the ringleader and she obviously couldn't be killed, but as I recall it was another Handmaid who initially protested at the notion of stoning Janine.
I do hope it doesn't continue to be so graphically horrible. It's the lack of freedom in society and, for the Handmaids, enslavement and enforced monthly rape that is so awful in the original story and in series 1. It doesn't have to be violent to make its point. The burning over the gas stove was unnecessary. I hope June isn't recaptured, obviously, and also that the kindly lorry driver and Nick are not caught.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on May 25, 2018 20:16:03 GMT
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Post by goodhelenstar on May 28, 2018 10:05:16 GMT
Another very dark episode. It was a nice touch to have the Boston Globe offices as June's temporary refuge, and a really chilling moment to see the evidence of the slaughter that had occurred there. It struck me that the Globe offices had been abandoned just as they were at the time of the massacre. If that happened on a larger scale then there must be a lot of unused buildings in Gilead. What we saw last series was a neat and tidy society with nothing visibly out of place other than the hanging wall that Offred and Ofglen walked past each day. I suppose we are just not being shown the crumbling, rundown buildings that must exist.
The Colonies reminded me a bit of Martin Sherman's play Bent in which characters are made to heave rocks from one side of a quarry to another, a pointless task whose only function is to exhaust and eventually kill those performing it. Interesting that the Aunts and guards, and also the horses, were protected only with masks. I wonder if it's also a place of punishment for Aunts who don't toe the line? Emily's back story was very moving and all the more chilling given that scenes like this are actually playing out on borders with families being parted as some are deported and others remain.
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Anymore to come?
