The Handmaids Tale
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Theres a particular resonance to a TV show thats set in your own city.
But scenes in D.C., for all my fair citys recent exposure on TV, usually arent shot here.
(That park in front of the White House where every senior official takes meetings onScandal?
Thats a green screen, folks.)
Handmaids Talealso really, really needed to get out of Boston.
One thing this show still does phenomenally well is world-building.
Of course the Amtrak train has essentially been turned into a bordello with gauzy red curtains.
(The fact that they have rebuilt the station entirely, however, is honestly some much-needed progress.
That place is in the Stone Ages of train transit.)
Of course there are separate escalators for men and women.
(You know all the sexual hijinks us slutty desegregated escalator riders get up to.)
Im surprised they didnt put her on a baggage carousel.
This, by the way, is a terrible PR strategy.
Regardless, Aunt Lydia is, as she so uncharacteristically explains, pumped!
Their children play in a room with its own tree, for goodness sake.
The relationship between Fred and Winslow is slightly more complex.
Fred wasjustdemoted for the kidnapping kerfuffle.
His star isnt rising, its crashing and burning out of the sky.
Household turns particularly grave when June notices the masks covering the necks and mouths of Washingtons handmaids.
Not to mention indicative of the fact that things can always, always get worse.
Im guessing no, butHandmaids Taleisnt letting a detail like that get in its way.
Junes meetings with the Swiss are valuable moments for the character.
Certainly she expects the Swiss to immediately agree to her demands that Nichole stay in Canada.
She is the childs mother.
The childs father is in agreement.
The Waterfords are hysterical kidnappers.
But the Swiss (and perhaps their allies) are determined to use this as an intel-gathering operation.
He can be the flaw in the Death Star.
This one has two banger conversations.
finally yields some meaning.
But what the hell?
Aunt Lydia tasers women and sends them to have their clits removed.
She doesnt give a rats ass about silencing women, so long as the silenced woman isnt her.
Youre small, youre cruel, and youre empty.
