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  1. I have been paying close attention to everything that has been happening in the show and I want to point out some very interesting parallels/symbolism that I've been seeing. Just a quick spoiler warning for everyone because I have no clue how far anyone reading this is and I will be mentioning certain things from specific episodes. Read with caution and you have been warned. Okay so to start off I find the whole show to just be so beautiful, the way that they frame everything single shot in exactly the right way and the breathtaking angles just makes the show so captivating for me. Because of this I've been really focusing on everything that these shots might mean so forgive me if anything I saw seems really far fetched, I just really love this show a lot. Alright so with the outfits I am absolutely in love with the coloring, the way that the wives wear the blue color which I agree with EC Amber when she says that the blue may represent the virgin Mary's colors. Now as for the red that the handmaids wear I think this might tie into the fact that red had always been a color that has been associated with adultery (for example the Scarlet Letter) which is what many of the wives may feel about the handmaids and essentially what a handmaids position is in Gilead. I also find it interesting how the other uniform colors worn by other members of the house are always bland and don't grab any form of attention. As if the only important members of the household aren't as important as the Commander, Wife and Handmaid. The next thing that I found extremely interesting was the parallels between the bombing scene and when Serena handed June the pen to begin editing. In the bombing episode we see that she turns to face her fellow handmaids and holds up the detonator, the motion in her hands at that moment as she presses the switch are very slow and deliberate. Then when June gets old of the pen she does not hold it normally but rather just like the handmaid had held the detonator. As she holds this up I see it as her setting off her own 'bomb' so to say, and by helping Selena she sees herself doing a similar amount of work. The parallel between the two scenes is simply amazing and I found it so clever! The show keeps throwing in little treasures like this and it makes me very compelled to watch whats next!
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