The Handmaids Tale
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This week theHandmaids Taleweve been hoping (and praying?)
Is it realistic that a hotel pen could pierce the armor-like pectoral muscles of Commander Winslows strapping chest?
Maybe not, but its sure as hell satisfying.
First, June has to stop a murder in her own home.
June takes an unexpected tack in talking Eleanor down I know you want to kill him.
I want to kill him, too but she has no choice.
Lawrence is, well, a little frazzled by the experience.
Fifty-two kids is … a lot.
Just ask any parent whos ever done the National Mall on a fourth-grade field trip.
Fifty-two coordinations, timed to the minute.
She just has to wait until post-shipment.
And now June is in a bind.
So shes forced to think creatively.
They need that cargo plane, because as Lawrence explains, he cant get a mouse out of Gilead.
So June does what she has to.
DoeseveryCommander have a stash of early-aughts clubbing clothes to loan his handmaid for late-night assignations?
He also snorts like a bull as he climbs on top of her, obviously delighting in her subjugation.
I can do it again, she intones in voice-over.
Not me, not my flesh.
Instead, she clocks him in the head and kills him.
(Notice the familiarity of that voice?Oprah again!)
But Serena doesnt let them drift in the fairy tale.
Was Gilead really just a balm for their ailing marriage?
A psychosexual experiment gone too far?
Except thats not to be.
That about sums it up, though the totality of his crimes cant really be distilled.
Serena knew this was coming.
She sold her husband down the river, presumably for the sake of her daughter.
I hate her, but I dont blame her a whit.
