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* June hides out in the old Boston Globe building, where everywhere she looks there's signs of a mass slaughter of the staff, including a long wall full of bullet holes and bloodstains.
* June hides out in the old Boston Globe building, where everywhere she looks there's signs of a mass slaughter of the staff, including a long wall full of bullet holes and bloodstains.
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* Offred seems to have found an ally in a doctor who freely uses the forbidden word "sterile" and offers to help her. Then it turns out by help, he means having sex with her right there to possibly impregnate her when the Commander can't and avoid future punishment, with the implication that he's done this extortion to a lot more women, all while keeping the same FauxAffablyEvil tone. Then you add the FridgeHorror that the Commander suffered from TheLoinsSleepTonight that month, meaning if she'd agreed and did get pregnant, she would have been immediately found out.
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* Offred seems to have found an ally in a doctor who freely uses the forbidden word "sterile" and offers to help her. Then it turns out by help, he means having sex with her right there to possibly impregnate her when the Commander can't and avoid future punishment, with the implication that he's done this extortion to a lot more women, all while keeping the same FauxAffablyEvil tone. Then you add the FridgeHorror that the Commander suffered from TheLoinsSleepTonight that month, meaning if she'd agreed and did get pregnant, she would have been immediately found out.out.
* The second season starts off by the handmaids being blindly taken to Fenway Park to be put in the gallows, which turn out to be fake in order to scare the handmaids into submission. Everything they experience in the training centre is a form a psychological torture in order to punish them for disobeying.
* The second season starts off by the handmaids being blindly taken to Fenway Park to be put in the gallows, which turn out to be fake in order to scare the handmaids into submission. Everything they experience in the training centre is a form a psychological torture in order to punish them for disobeying.
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** Fred and Serena are shown in a movie theater when he receives a text message of the upcoming FalseFlagAttack that will kick off the takeover. She kisses him, saying "this is for the greater good." They settle back to watch the movie, surrounded by a crowd of laughing, talking, texting people who have no idea that in three weeks, their world is forever changed.
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** The turning point is a peaceful protest ending with soldiers gunning down unarmed civilians. Everyone runs in panic as the close-ups reveal how June knows this is the end of the world she knew.
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** To say nothing of the flirtations with fascism the US, the UK, and other ostensibly liberal Western countries have recently gone through.
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* Offred seems to have found an ally in a doctor who freely uses the forbidden word "sterile" and offers to help her. Then it turns out by help, he means having sex with her right there to possibly impregnate her when the Commander can't and avoid future punishment, with the implication that he's done this extortion to a lot more women, all while keeping the same FauxAffablyEvil tone. Then you add the FridgeHorror that the Commander suffered from TheLoinsSleepTonight that month, meaning if she'd agreed and did get pregnant, she would have been immediately found out.
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* In a flashback to when the infertility problems first started, a woman who had a mental breakdown when her baby was stillborn tries to steal June's, insisting it's hers.
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* Offred seems to have found an ally in a doctor who freely uses the forbidden word "sterile" and offers to help her. Then it turns out by help, he means having sex with her right there to possibly impregnate her when the Commander can't and avoid future punishment, with the implication that he's done this extortion to a lot more women, all while keeping the same FauxAffablyEvil tone.
* Offred seems to have found an ally in a doctor who freely uses the forbidden word "sterile" and offers to help her. Then it turns out by help, he means having sex with her right there to possibly impregnate her when the Commander can't and avoid future punishment, with the implication that he's done this extortion to a lot more women, all while keeping the same FauxAffablyEvil tone.
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* In a flashback to when the infertility problems first started, a woman who had a mental breakdown when her baby was stillborn tries to steal June's, insisting it's hers.
* In a flashback to when the infertility problems first started, a woman who had a mental breakdown when her baby was stillborn tries to steal June's, insisting it's hers.
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* The book only made references to how the takeover happened. Here, flashbacks show it and it is nothing short of horrifying to see women bluntly told they can no longer hold jobs or have their own money. The fact most see it more as an annoyance at first is worst as they have no idea of the horrors that are coming.
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** Even better, Gilead is the sort of nation that would consider perfectly normal things to be "defects." What if the kid grows up to be gay or transgender? What if they're autistic? What if they're schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill? In our society, any decent parent would love them just the same, but in ''Gilead''...
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* Seeing what happened to [[spoiler: the previous Offred. Nick hears Rita's horrified screams and [[WhamShot runs in to see the]] [[DrivenToSuicide previous Offred's body hanging from the ceiling]].]] What makes it even more terrifying is that [[MoodWhiplash the scene almost comes out of ''nowhere'' ]].nowhere]].
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* Seeing what happened to [[spoiler: the previous Offred. Nick hears Rita's horrified screams and [[WhamShot runs in to see the]] [[DrivenToSuicide previous Offred's body hanging from the ceiling]].]] What makes it even more terrifying is that [[MoodWhiplash the scene almost comes out of ''nowhere'']].''nowhere'' ]].
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* Particicution, where the women vent their frustrations on a male "criminals" "criminal" (in one case a political dissenter) by ripping him to pieces with their bare hands. During that scene in the book, Janine, who's had at least two "shredder" babies, finally loses her shit and wanders around with a bloody chunk of the person's scalp in her hand and a vacant grin on her face.
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* The fact that the entire premise -- a takeover by religious fundamentalists, the utter loss of rights for women -- ''is inspired by true events.'' Iran had been developing into a secular country over the 20th century, but in the 1970s made a complete turnaround. Since then Iranian women have had to live under a barrage of restrictions, including laws about how they dress, though thankfully they still have access to education. To say nothing of the flirtations with fascism the US, UK and other western countries have recently gone through.
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* The fact that the entire premise -- a takeover by religious fundamentalists, the utter loss of rights for women -- ''is inspired by true events.'' Iran UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} had been developing into a modern, secular country over the 20th century, but in the 1970s made a complete turnaround.turnaround after the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Since then Iranian women have had to live under a barrage of restrictions, including laws about how they dress, though thankfully they still have access to education.
** To say nothing of the flirtations with fascism the US,UK UK, and other western ostensibly liberal Western countries have recently gone through.
** To say nothing of the flirtations with fascism the US,
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* In the beginning of the film, there were women ruled as infertile being led into trucks and cells previously used for livestock (one soldier just crossed out the "Livestock" and wrote "116" and the Female Biological Symbol). There was one woman screaming "you made a mistake!" and the screams made it all the more jarring.
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* In the beginning of the film, there were women ruled as infertile being led into trucks and cells previously used for livestock (one soldier just crossed out the "Livestock" and wrote "116" and the Female Biological Symbol). There was one woman screaming "you made a mistake!" and the screams made it all the more jarring.
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* A snippet from the book.
--->"But WHOSE fault was it?"\\
"Her fault. Her fault. Her fault."\\
"WHO led them on?"\\
"She did. She did. She did."\\
"And why would God allow such a terrible thing to happen?"\\
"Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson."
** Now factor this in: they were talking about ''a 14-year old girl being gang-raped.''
* The Colonies. You ''really'' don't want to be [[AFateWorseThanDeath sent there]]. [[spoiler: They're used for cleaning up nuclear waste until they die from the radiation poisoning. It's basically gulags. At one point Moira tells Offred that her mother ended up there (she saw her in a propaganda video) and when Offred expresses relief since she thought her mother was dead, Moira simply says "She might as well be. You should wish it for her." Also hinted is that "the Children of Ham" (black people), who are supposedly sent to "national homelands" (a la South Africa) may in fact be suffering extermination]].
** While we learn the (possible) fates of the black and Jewish populations, there is no mention of other ethnic or religious groups. What about the Asian, Middle Eastern, First Nation, etc, groups? We don't know, but we can imagine that it was ''horrifying''.
* The whole concept of being a Handmaid. You're forcibly indoctrinated (including such charming little exercises as the one shown above) and then passed around the upper echelons of the military as a brood mare. Your very name is taken away from you, to be replaced with the designation of whatever man currently owns you, e.g. Offred, Ofwayne. You're blamed if you're not fertile, even though it's most likely the ''men'' who own and use you that are sterile, and the Wives resent or even hate you regardless. If you don't manage to get pregnant with three successive households, you're declared defective and packed off to the colonies to die of radiation poisoning or slave labor. If you ''do'' actually manage to get pregnant ''and'' carry the child to term, it's removed from you except for feeding times and, as soon as it's weaned, you're bundled off to ''another'' family to start the whole miserable process all over again. And while you're given a sop of never being sent to the colonies if you bear a live, healthy baby, there's always the possibility that the baby's a "shredder", born with a mental or physical defect that only appears later. ''You will never be safe.''
* Particicution, where the women vent their frustrations on male "criminals" (in one case a political dissenter) by ripping him to pieces with their bare hands. During that scene in the book, Janine, who's had at least two "shredder" babies, finally loses her shit and wanders around with a bloody chunk of the person's scalp in her hand and a vacant grin on her face.
** The epilogue theorizes that Gileadean society came up with the custom of Particicution not just to get rid of unwanted elements (they had the Wall for that), but ''expressly'' to provide a stress outlet for otherwise terribly oppressed Handmaids, to the point where instead of just having one in the rare case the occasion arose, after a while they started to hold them on every equinox and solstice, that is 4 times a year.
* In the beginning of the film, there were women ruled as infertile being led into trucks and cells previously used for livestock (one soldier just crossed out the "Livestock" and wrote "116" and the Female Biological Symbol). There was one woman screaming "you made a mistake!" and the screams made it all the more jarring.
* Offred doesn't know what happened to [[AdultFear her husband and her daughter]], especially considering that before the rise of Gilead, the reader learns that a crazy woman tried to take Offred's baby daughter from Offred's shopping cart when Offred had her back turned to get something off the shelves. ''Yikes''.
* The fact that the entire premise -- a takeover by religious fundamentalists, the utter loss of rights for women -- ''is inspired by true events.'' Iran had been developing into a secular country over the 20th century, but in the 1970s made a complete turnaround. Since then Iranian women have had to live under a barrage of restrictions, including laws about how they dress, though thankfully they still have access to education.
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* A snippet from the book.
--->"But WHOSE fault was it?"\\
"Her fault. Her fault. Her fault."\\
"WHO led them on?"\\
"She did. She did. She did."\\
"And why would God allow such a terrible thing to happen?"\\
"Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson. Teach her a lesson."
** Now factor this in: they were talking about ''a 14-year old girl being gang-raped.''
* The Colonies. You ''really'' don't want to be [[AFateWorseThanDeath sent there]]. [[spoiler: They're used for cleaning up nuclear waste until they die from the radiation poisoning. It's basically gulags. At one point Moira tells Offred that her mother ended up there (she saw her in a propaganda video) and when Offred expresses relief since she thought her mother was dead, Moira simply says "She might as well be. You should wish it for her." Also hinted is that "the Children of Ham" (black people), who are supposedly sent to "national homelands" (a la South Africa) may in fact be suffering extermination]].
** While we learn the (possible) fates of the black and Jewish populations, there is no mention of other ethnic or religious groups. What about the Asian, Middle Eastern, First Nation, etc, groups? We don't know, but we can imagine that it was ''horrifying''.
* The whole concept of being a Handmaid. You're forcibly indoctrinated (including such charming little exercises as the one shown above) and then passed around the upper echelons of the military as a brood mare. Your very name is taken away from you, to be replaced with the designation of whatever man currently owns you, e.g. Offred, Ofwayne. You're blamed if you're not fertile, even though it's most likely the ''men'' who own and use you that are sterile, and the Wives resent or even hate you regardless. If you don't manage to get pregnant with three successive households, you're declared defective and packed off to the colonies to die of radiation poisoning or slave labor. If you ''do'' actually manage to get pregnant ''and'' carry the child to term, it's removed from you except for feeding times and, as soon as it's weaned, you're bundled off to ''another'' family to start the whole miserable process all over again. And while you're given a sop of never being sent to the colonies if you bear a live, healthy baby, there's always the possibility that the baby's a "shredder", born with a mental or physical defect that only appears later. ''You will never be safe.''
* Particicution, where the women vent their frustrations on male "criminals" (in one case a political dissenter) by ripping him to pieces with their bare hands. During that scene in the book, Janine, who's had at least two "shredder" babies, finally loses her shit and wanders around with a bloody chunk of the person's scalp in her hand and a vacant grin on her face.
** The epilogue theorizes that Gileadean society came up with the custom of Particicution not just to get rid of unwanted elements (they had the Wall for that), but ''expressly'' to provide a stress outlet for otherwise terribly oppressed Handmaids, to the point where instead of just having one in the rare case the occasion arose, after a while they started to hold them on every equinox and solstice, that is 4 times a year.
* In the beginning of the film, there were women ruled as infertile being led into trucks and cells previously used for livestock (one soldier just crossed out the "Livestock" and wrote "116" and the Female Biological Symbol). There was one woman screaming "you made a mistake!" and the screams made it all the more jarring.
* Offred doesn't know what happened to [[AdultFear her husband and her daughter]], especially considering that before the rise of Gilead, the reader learns that a crazy woman tried to take Offred's baby daughter from Offred's shopping cart when Offred had her back turned to get something off the shelves. ''Yikes''.
* The fact that the entire premise -- a takeover by religious fundamentalists, the utter loss of rights for women -- ''is inspired by true events.'' Iran had been developing into a secular country over the 20th century, but in the 1970s made a complete turnaround. Since then Iranian women have had to live under a barrage of restrictions, including laws about how they dress, though thankfully they still have access to education.
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