The Handmaids Tale
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One could not simply play; one must first set up and have everything in the right spot.
After the abundant trauma ofThe Crossing,Bruce Miller has tossed us a breather.
Rita hasnt always been given her due as one of the more complex women ofThe Handmaids Tale.
Serena assumes he fought for Gilead, but Rita never confirms it.
What kind of patriot was he?
Rita is decent, upstanding, reserved.
But her resolve changes between the meetings.
Any baby, for a spiritually devoted woman like Rita, is a blessing.
But its Serenas blatant attempt to use Rita for her own self-defense that pushes her away.
But every step along the way is a bursting pinata of absurdity.
Then, June chooses a tanker car with an open top.
Of course its milk, because we needed a maternal metaphor to bop us over the head.
Im assuming the FDA has been disbanded along with the rest of American bureaucracy.
The opaque milk, in a vast container.
And no alarms sound.
But then, upon arrival (a.k.a.
Maybe its because I couldnt climb the rope in gym class, but really?
June has enough bicep heft to simply pluck Janine out like a little minnow on a fishing line?
The next car down had two perfectly good Jeeps they could have lay down in for the all-night ride!
Why, why, why.
(Which also reminds me: Are those ear trackers no longer in use at all in Gilead?)
In smoking, bombed-out Chicago, things arent as hopeful as one might imagine.
to grotesque levels almost on par with Gilead.
So why not acquire one for himself?
Another man who sees his cause as righteous and his rights as superior.
But in this episode, their roles are reversed.
Janine has deep stores of resilience, an ability to find meager bits of happiness in the worst moments.
It wasnt so bad, she tells June.
He thinks my eye patch is cool.
