Praise be! The Second season of one of my favorite shows premiered on Wednesday, April 25th and if you've been following my social media, you"ll see that I've literally been counting down and anticipating the return of the award wining show. Season one blew my mind and I haven't been able to stop talking about it to anyone that cared to listen. Season one ended with Offred getting shoved into the back of a van and it left us wondering what was going on and where they were taking her. Season two continues from this point and we find out that it’s just Aunt Lydia trying to play her mind games with the handmaids. To be honest, I shed a tear when they put the ropes around their necks. I thought at least one of them was going to die. This was such an emotional scene and I keep asking myself how these actors deal with such intense scenes. Aunt Lydia is truly evil and she wasn’t playing when she told the Handmaids that there were going to be consequences for their refusal to stone Janine to death last season. Offred is saved from the punishment when Aunt Lydia finds out about her pregnancy.
Blessed be the fruit!
It’s weird for Offred because she sees all her fellow Handmaids suffering while under punishment and hears their screams from getting their hands burnt but all she can do is drink the soup she was forced to take and stare at their sad faces. She feels helpless. In the first two episodes, we get to see more of the world outside the Waterford’s and it’s also terrible. June is seeking freedom and her baby’s father, Nick, is risking his life to make sure she gets it. June is trying to be strong for Hannah and for her baby but it’s really hard and I’m left praying and hoping that she doesn’t get caught and taken back to the Waterford’s or worse, hard labor with Emily.
In episode two, we get to see what Emily is going through and it’s not pretty. She’s toiling In the fields and shoveling gravel with a bunch of women and they are zapped if they stop for even a second and when they bell rings, they all have to kneel and thank God for his goodness. Crazy right? There’s also a flashback about Emily’s life before Gilead and how she lost her family. Our dear Emily was a professor and when she tried to run away with her wife and son, she was stopped on the grounds that the marriage was not considered a real one and forbidden. She also poisons a former mistress (Played by Marisa Tomei) who is brought to the Colonies because she had an affair. Emily pretends to be nice to her at first but poisons her and says “Every month, you held a woman down while your husband raped her”. The mistress is found hung like a scarecrow in the morning. I got really really emotional when Janine sees Emily and gives her a hug but I'm sad for what she's going to go through in the Colonies with Emily. Everything about this show is just amazing and words and not even enough to describe how good it is. I have a strong feeling that Season Two will be better than the first and come award season, they’ll be snagging a lot of them. The best moment in the premiere was when June cut out the ear tag that marked her as a property of Gilead. This was a very important scene which meant that she was officially free. I really hope June gets her freedom and is reunited with Hannah and her husband. A new episode airs next Wednesday.
Praise be!!
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