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Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK.

If you’re still here, The Handmaid’s Tale series blog should really reward your long service, because many have fallen by the wayside during this gruelling series. As Offred pegs out dead Eden’s washing, she tells us that the teenager will be turned to animal feed as heretics don’t get gravestones. “All we leave behind is the uniform,” she adds poignantly.

This episode – aside from hastily tying up loose ends – is all about the low, persistent rumble of angry women on the turn. Wives, Marthas, handmaids: all of them have a reason to revolt against the whisky and cigars brigade currently imprisoning them. Even though the wives do seem to turn quite suddenly, Serena’s slow-burn fury has been evident throughout.

The Handmaid’s Tale follows one woman’s struggle to survive in a dystopian future America, renamed Gilead, where women possess few rights, are used as breeding vessels and are not allowed to.

The handmaid's tale season 2 torrent download. In the country, cruel orders and customs, respect in the society is enjoyed only by officers and their wives. In addition to the totalitarian system of society, in the world of the future there is a serious problem - infertility.

Eden and her illegal bible become the McGuffin that set in motion this final act. If a 15-year-old who isn’t allowed to read is considered animal feed, then how is any parent to protect their own daughter? June uses the young girl’s scribbled attempts to understand the scripture to wound her conscience. “How are you going to keep her safe?” she spits at Serena over her carefully tended orchids.

June is later dumbfounded when she discovers Eden’s own father turned her in to the authorities. “What are you gonna do when they come for your daughter?” she hisses at Fred before their thrilling, horrifying exchange of blows. This violent outburst mirrors Emily’s scene where, driven by fury alone, she launches at Aunt Lydia with that blade, savaging the old woman who dares to make a glib remark about the removal of Emily’s clitoris.

I’ve also really enjoyed the progression of Rita’s character this series. “Your girlfriend is badass,” she tells Nick after the epic Fred-slapping incident. Ultimately, it is she and her friends who unite to save June from her misery. She also allows June and Nick a moment with their daughter. “Holly, this is your daddy,” says June, tenderly, as she tells Nick she loves him. Between Rita’s newfound loose tongue and a genuine moment of sweetness, this episode was positively sunny compared to previous outings.

The scene between the wives, where Serena and Angela’s mother tentatively hatch their plot to alter the law, almost out of nowhere, my credulity was stretched. I can understand Serena’s ongoing dissatisfaction, but she’s never mentioned anything like this to the other wives and is taking the most enormous risk.

Fred beat her in front of Offred the last time she had an independent thought. She must’ve known how this crazy rebellion would ultimately go. Sure enough, the poor woman (mustn’t forget she’s a rapist) ends up one finger down on the deal for reading openly from the Bible.

After the wives (briefly and ineffectually) revolt, Emily prepares for her first ceremony with Joseph. But it’s Josh from The West Wing: there’s no way he was going to sexually assault his intellectual equal, or anyone else for that matter. Bradley Whitford playing someone without a strong moral core still feels wrong, even after he was the evil patriarch in Get Out.

At Lydia’s checkup the next day, she gets more than she bargained for as the pinless grenades of Gilead’s women all seem to start detonating at once. Houses burn, Martha’s form the resistance and Lydia takes Emily’s righteous knife in her back. “I tried,” says Serena to June, holding up the raw stump where her little finger used to be. “God send me an obedient woman,” mutters Fred later in the kitchen. Can they not see? The women riseth.

Suddenly, a house across the street is on fire (probably caused by an exploding woman) and chaos reigns. As guardians swarm the area and Joseph drives off with a terrified Emily, Rita comes to June and tells her she and the baby can go, but it must be now.

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The struggle between Nicole/Holly’s two mothers is infused with mutual empathy. Serena knows Gilead isn’t safe and that she and June want the same thing. When she finally lets go, June gives Serena a heartfelt, “Blessings on you” and she means it. The splendid network of Marthas swings into action, passing June and Holly like a carefully held baton until she reaches the tunnel mouth, where she awaits rescue.

That moment, crouched in the corn, where she flashes back to Hannah, tells us everything about how this will end. She’s not going to leave her behind. But what hope does she have? Unless the revolution really has begun and the Marthas have been stockpiling ammo. As Emily and Nicole (nice touch) drive away in the truck, June stands, hooded, vengeful, and looks at us for a moment in a way that says, “This ends. Tonight.”

Just the 13 episodes of series three to go before she stamps on Gilead’s nuts forever. See you next year, bitches.

The sound of music

A giddy flick through someone’s record collection this week. Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces, Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox and I’ll Be Your Mirror by the Velvet Underground & Nico all feature as the real world leaks through the ever-widening cracks in Gilead. Burning Down the House by Talking Heads plays us out, hinting that radical change is coming.

Blessed be that fruit. May the Lord open.

Under his eye

• Rita and June exchange guilt over Eden’s death. “I treated her like shit,” says Rita. “I slept with her husband,” retorts June. She wins.
• “Forget your lunch today, Waterford?” sneers one of the commanders when Serena comes to address their meeting. He’s first against the wall next series.
• “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum” scratched into the paintwork of Offred’s bedroom is a smashing “fuck you” to Fred. I gave it a little clap.
• Bradley Whitford was horribly underused. Bring him in mid-series, not two eps before the end, and let his character bed in before we realise he’s off-message. Never enough Whitford in my life.

The Handmaid's Tale's second season finale left off on a frustrating cliffhanger, once June (Elisabeth Moss) decided not to flee Gilead, despite all the Marthas teaming up to provide her and the baby safe passage out. She might've spent all season trying to escape the oppressive zealot regime, but after she witnessed even the privileged women of this society suffering the unspeakable violence of this patriarchy, she couldn't leave her eldest daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), behind.

So, where does that leave us for Season 3? Slowly but surely, details about the Hulu series' newest season are starting to trickle in, so let's take a look at what we know about The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 so far.

It will premiere later than usual.The Handmaid's Tale has usually dropped in April, but this season the show will premiere on Wednesday, June 5. Though it's later than usual, Hulu will drop the first three episodes at once before switching to a weekly rollout.

Nick (Max Minghella) and Fred's (Joseph Fiennes) power struggle has only begun. Now that Nick officially stood up to Fred to help Offred escape, there are some pretty harsh truths out in the open between these men. However, turning Nick over isn't exactly an easy thing to do, given all the dirty secrets he knows about Fred and his dealings. Instead, he seems to have gotten a bit of a promotion if his new Season 3 duds are anything to go by.

Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) will be back. Showrunner Bruce Miller confirmed that Bradley Whitford has signed on for Season 3 to continue his role of Commander Lawrence, so we'll eventually get some answers about his role within Gilead and within the resistance that helped the Handmaids escape.

Emily (Alexis Bledel) and Nicole's story isn't over yet. If you were worried Emily would escape with baby Nicole and never be seen or heard from again, never fear. Emily and Nicole will play a very large role in Season 3 since everyone will be trying to track down the baby when the show returns. Luckily, the Season 3 trailer seems to reveal that they'll make it to Canada since there's a shot of Luke (O-T Fagbenle) with a baby at what appears to be a rally or protest.

Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) is alive. Like a cockroach, Aunt Lydia just won't seem to die. She will return from her brush with death with a renewed interest in keeping Handmaids in line.

'Aunt Lydia doesn't die, she's transformed by this event. The fact that one of her girls who — [she thinks] that there's a love between her and her girls — has literally stabbed her in the back. I think that that alters your workplace feelings on a day-to-day basis' said Miller. 'I think in her case, it makes her double down that she feels like she just wasn't strong enough in her discipline. So she, I think, has decided it's time to get tough.'

Rita (Amanda Brugel) will be in hot water. Given that she and the other Marthas banded together to help the Handmaids of Cambridge escape, Rita is going to have a lot of questions to answer about her part in the whole ordeal. According to Bruce Miller, she's going to have to get creative to avoid any comeuppance for what she's done, so let's hope she and Nick manage to work together to cover each other's backs.

Luke will be on a quest for revenge. When Luke confronted Fred in Canada, he finally had a face to put on the evils of Gilead — not to mention the man who was raping his wife — and that clarity will be a dangerous thing for him in Season 3. 'I think that now that he's met Fred, face-to-face, that is the focus of his fury,' Miller said. 'All of the sudden the Gilead, and the Gilead system has been reduced to Fred Waterford and he's gonna find a way to get Fred.' Sounds like Fred should watch his back — and maybe never return to Canada?

We will revisit The Colonies. While we got a grim look at The Colonies via Emily's storyline this season, Miller did remind us that in the original novel there are Colonies where women aren't just used for harsh manual labor. 'There are colonies where teams of women are taking care of toxic waste and there are colonies where teams of women are picking apples and working in the economy and doing all sorts of other things,' said Miller. He also seemed sure that we'd revisit these other Colonies sooner rather than later.

June's gonna be fighting back. Miller has also previewed a June who is much more defiant than anything we've already seen of the character so far. He told TV Guide, 'I think overall Season 3 is a lot more rebellious, outwardly rebellious than Seasons 1 and 2. I think June's taken a lot, and I think it's time for her to give back some.' The big difference, he explained, is that she'll be returning to Gilead by choice this time, rather than by force. 'That's a huge, powerful choice,' he said. 'What changes in your psychology when you've chosen to be in a place like that and you've chosen to stay on the inside and fight as opposed to go to the outside? I think that's a very different psychology, so that's been very interesting.' Blessed be the fight.

The Waterfords will have some new friends. Christopher Meloni and Elizabeth Reaser have joined the cast of The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 as the Winslows, a commander and his wife who will become close to Fred and Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) and host the pair on an important trip. No word yet on whether the two will be in sync with the ideology of the system.

June will suit up as a Martha.The Handmaid's Tale's Super Bowl spot was more creepy than it was informative, with its warning, 'Wake up, America.' However, the 10-second teaser that preceded it offered a hint as to how June might infiltrate Gilead now that she's escaped the confines of being 'under his eye.' In the 10-second clip, June can be seen donning the traditional gray garb of the Marthas and marching alongside the other servants. Of course, she'll eventually sport the handmaids' red cloak again, as the fuller preview shows, so we'll have to wait and see whether she's captured by the aunts once again in the new season (let's hope not for her sake).

The Handmaid's Tale returns Wednesday, June 5 on Hulu.

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