The Handmaids Tale
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Theres a weird condition called alarm fatigue that hospital personnel sometimes develop.
Or at least I did.
Could Natalie have been saved when she was brought in?
Most likely not, as the doctor explains that shed lost a tremendous amount of blood.
The light in the room suddenly flashes warm as day dawns, then cooler when the fluorescents come on.
Is it crazy of June to want to kill Natalie?
(Its certainly crazy of Aunt Lydia to leave June alone with her.)
Janines presence is odd isnt anyone keeping an eye on her?
(Yes, pun is intended.)
and their entire conversation unlikely.
Why would June bring Janine, a pseudo-believer, into her confidence about killing Natalie?
Some character stability would be nice!
poor, shot-up Tommy fromShawshank Redemption), whose devotion to the Hippocratic oath wavers.
Like a lot of Gileads worker bees, hes a drone, but hes complicated.
This job is just that, a job.
It turns out that this very doctor knew Junes mother, the scary Dr. Holly Maddox.
Hes trying to do some good, it seems, inside the system.
But it isnt enough.
He still reeks of complicity.
A few episodes ago, she looked on in gruesome satisfaction when another handmaids baby was stillborn.
Now we dont have any idea what to expect from her.
The episode ought to have ended here.
Once June steps outside that building, the spell of claustrophobia is broken for June and the viewers.
And Aunt Lydia, who is no fool, ought to see right through it.
(Instead, shes busy giggling over Janines fancy new red velvet eyepatch.
Look out, because these two are an ominous pairing.)
Sitting by her bedside, this time seemingly in earnest, June apologizes to Natalie.
Is she truly chastened?
Is she secretly wringing the life out of Natalie and we just cant see what her hands are doing?
In a way, it doesnt matter.
Junes nature can no longer be plotted or diagnosed or understood.
She doesnt have a clue!
(And neither do we.)
Nothing comes of it.
The group of resistance agents she recruited has been left by the wayside for half a season now.
Hannah is more unreachable than ever.
