Gilead officials catch them, forcibly separate mother and daughter, and take them back to the fundamentalist regime they were trying to escape. the first 4/5 episodes kept me interested but 6-8 went super heavy into the cliche school setting. Why Well lets unpack this box although the premise of the show is a sort of unique idea, at its core it is still a fantasy isekai harem romance. However even though Im almost done, I decided to drop it. There’s so much Offred can’t say out loud, and you can see it all in her expressions, or a clenched fist, and the way she speaks in voice-over.) Of course, they don’t make it to the border. So Ive only watched 8 episodes so this isnt a full review. (Side note: Moss’ acting on this show, at least from the three episodes I’ve seen so far, is tremendous. You can see the anguish in Moss’ eyes and the quick decision that she can’t focus on it now, picking up the little girl and going forward. When their car runs off the road, Luke tells them to run and stays behind - but June doesn’t get far before gunshots ring out behind them. Take the opening moments of this episode: June, her husband, and their young daughter are fleeing by car, trying to get to the Canadian border. But how did Offred/June get here? In Atwood’s book, she remembers flashes of her pre-Gilead life with her husband, Luke, and young daughter, Hannah - a day at the beach, a trip to the aquarium, nights out with friends - and now we get to actually see them.
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