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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 3:31 pm 
Wow. Just started this today. It really sucked me in. Here is the blurb from Imdb.com:
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt
Awesome cast includes Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) and Joseph Fiennes. Really, really good. It makes you wonder what happened to our country to make it turn out this way. New episodes are up every Weds.
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Marameko
Member
07-14-2002
| Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 6:45 am
Quite good, I want more than 1 episode per week.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 6:54 am
I've seen three episodes so far. It is compelling and scary in so many ways.
Here's one of my posts from the Netflix thread about it.
The Handmaid's Tale is something else. It's like a post-Trump, hard alt-right, mega-Christian cult world! I find it really scary especially in this day and age. Very timely.
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Dlkuhn4
Member
07-13-2002
| Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 6:58 am
I love it so far
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 9:37 am
Exactly, Strategist! What I was thinking too.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, May 12, 2017 - 5:47 am
From previews it looks like a very bleak show. Is there any humor in it at all?
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Marameko
Member
07-14-2002
| Friday, May 12, 2017 - 6:10 am
There is mild humor when at times the true thoughts of the handmaiden played by Elizabeth Moss are shared with the audience; otherwise the tone is serious. Especially when the scene involves the handmaiden and the couple she is "working for". This scenario which you will instantly understand if you are watching.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, May 12, 2017 - 8:23 am
Thank you, Mara. Right now my life is kind of bleak and I won't be watching it at this time.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, May 12, 2017 - 4:15 pm
(((((OG)))))
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, May 21, 2017 - 9:10 pm
I saw the movie last night from 1990. It was kind of blah. But I did laugh at the giant shoulder pads in all the wives blue dresses....LOL
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Monday, June 12, 2017 - 3:35 am
Naja, where did you see the movie? I would like to give it a try.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Monday, June 12, 2017 - 11:11 am
Wow! This show gets crazier and crazier. No surprise that the men have their own underground club.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 4:58 am
Strategist, I found a copy on one of the torrent sites.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 7:30 am
Thanks, Naja. Not familiar, but I will seek it out here in Canada.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 1:41 pm
Wow. What a cliffhanger! The thing I hate about these Netflix and Hulu series is that we get 8 or 10 episodes and then have to wait a WHOLE YEAR for the next installment! Ugh!!!!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 8:16 am
Was the episode with the underground men's club the season finale? I was under the impression that they were only a couple of episodes left to the series.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 12:19 pm
No, there were 10 episodes. This week's was the last of the season. There were two episodes after the underground men's club.
I feel kind of bad for the commander's wife, even though she's a real b*****. She helped dream up this horrible theocracy, and now she's sidelined by it because she's a woman. Lot's of thinky stuff in this show. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 2:26 pm
Okay thank you!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 3:53 pm
Okay after much Googling I've discovered that here in Canada on Bravo we're two episodes behind so the last one that I watched was episode 8 so there's 2 more to go.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 4:00 pm
Thanks for the info. I was also wondering if we had to wait for the rest!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 4:42 pm
One thing I don't understand is how do some of the women get to be wives? It makes no sense to me. I mean why didn't June and her husband get to stay together as a family and keep making babies?
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 5:04 pm
I believe that the beautiful upper-class women who cannot bear children become wives. The ones who can make babies can only do so if the father is one of the upper-class men. The cooks and cleaners who can't have babies, become servants. Everyone who does not obey escapes or dies.
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 5:05 pm
..oh and up to episode 8 we learn that some of them become underground prostitutes/slaves.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Friday, June 16, 2017 - 1:46 pm
I believe the wives were already wives of the commanders when Gilead took over. They are the "elite" class, and most of them are sterile. The "lower class" women who are determined to be fertile (have already given birth) were rounded up to be the handmaids to the upper class women (ala Jacob and Rachel and her handmaid). In a previous episode Serena Joy tells someone (June?) that she and her husband tried for years to conceive without success.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 3:28 pm
Thanks Strategist and Babyjaxmom. I hadn't realize only high society were getting to have wives and raise children.
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