Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Umbelina said: It starts tomorrow, the 25th on Hulu. You mean at 12 AM Eastern right? Like, in 2 hours? 1 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said: You mean at 12 AM Eastern right? Like, in 2 hours? I'm on the left coast. I assume the episode begins in about 24 hours. 7PM or so? Ha. Anyone know the time it first plays? 1 Link to comment
Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 Just now, Umbelina said: I'm on the left coast. I assume the episode begins in about 24 hours. 7PM or so? Ha. Anyone know the time it first plays? 12 am Eastern. I just turned on Hulu to verify. S2E1 June is available in 48 minutes 2 Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 To tide you over until the season premiere drops! 3 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) 54 minutes ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said: 12 am Eastern. I just turned on Hulu to verify. S2E1 June is available in 48 minutes Not coming up for me yet. I'll check later. I wonder if it's midnight PST as well? Edited April 25, 2018 by Umbelina 1 Link to comment
Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 It looks like they are dropping THREE, not the reported 2 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said: It looks like they are dropping THREE, not the reported 2 ????? Link to comment
Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Umbelina said: ????? Refresh the page for S2. You'll see the first 3 starting at 9. I suppose 9PM is Central Link to comment
chocolatine April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 25 minutes ago, Umbelina said: Not coming up for me yet. I'll check later. I wonder if it's midnight PST as well? Last year, when I was living on the West Coast, I was getting new episodes at 9pm the night before the official air date. 5 minutes ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said: It looks like they are dropping THREE, not the reported 2 Where can I see that information? I'm looking at https://www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale and the only thing it says is that the new season is premiering on April 25th. 2 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 Just now, Deputy Deputy CoS said: Refresh the page for S2. You'll see the first 3 starting at 9. I suppose 9PM is Central I've been refreshing, nothing but season 1. I think it doesn't start here until midnight PST. Which? Is bullshit, if you are already watching there. Link to comment
Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 Just now, Umbelina said: I've been refreshing, nothing but season 1. I think it doesn't start here until midnight PST. Which? Is bullshit, if you are already watching there. Hmm, I am glad I live in NY lol 1 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 I think I watched at 9 PM last year too. This blows. 1 Link to comment
Deputy Deputy CoS April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 1 minute ago, chocolatine said: Last year, when I was living on the West Coast, I was getting new episodes at 9pm the night before the official air date. Where can I see that information? I'm looking at https://www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale and the only thing it says is that the new season is premiering on April 25th. On Hulu's homepage on my TVeeeeeee! 1 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) https://twitter.com/hulu_support/with_replies Tweet and bitch. Edited April 25, 2018 by Umbelina 1 Link to comment
chocolatine April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Deputy Deputy CoS said: On Hulu's homepage on my TVeeeeeee! Yay, found it! It's saying that the third episode will be available on May 2nd though (I'm in NYC as well). 2 minutes ago, Umbelina said: https://twitter.com/hulu_support/with_replies Tweet and bitch. I'd love to, but I'm on the East Coast now, and as long as it shows up for me at midnight as promised I have nothing to bitch about. Edited April 25, 2018 by chocolatine 1 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 Just now, chocolatine said: Yay, found it! It's saying that the third episode will be available on May 2nd though (I'm in NYC as well). Where did you find it? How? Are you on the West Coast too? Are you guys actually watching now? Or does this begin at 9PM my time? Link to comment
chocolatine April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Umbelina said: Where did you find it? How? Are you on the West Coast too? I went to the Hulu app on my Smart TV - *not* the website. Went to "My Stuff", then to the Handmaid's Tale, and they have Season 2 already in the menu. Go to Season 2, then the episodes tab, and there it says the first two episodes are airing at 12am April 25th, and the third at 12am on May 2nd. I'm currently in NYC. Now, it may also say 12am for you on the West Coast, but it may still show up at 9pm, depending whether or not the Hulu app has local time enabled. Just check again in 13 minutes. :) Edited April 25, 2018 by chocolatine 1 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) WARNING, this first one is more of an overall season review, or at least the episodes Media has already seen. Also, the second article (I think) gets spoilery in the last few paragraphs. Damn. The Handmaid’s Tale Review: Praise Be, Season 2 Is Good The Emmy-winning series finds a way to crawl under the audience’s skin and stay there in its sophomore season. by Sonia Saraiya The Handmaid’s Tale: How Ann Dowd Found Aunt Lydia’s Twisted Soul The Emmy-winning actress thinks her character is defined by devotion to her “girls”—and has some ideas about how Lydia turned out the way she did. by Laura Bradley Quote When asked how she feels about Aunt Lydia, the terrifying re-education maestro at the center of The Handmaid’s Tale’s dystopian society, Ann Dowd offered an unequivocal, if surprising answer: “I love her to pieces.” .... Make no mistake: the actress knows all too well the pain that her character has caused. But it’s not her job to judge: “You learn early on, like in any relationship, that if you judge there will be no relationship,” she said during a recent phone interview. As she explained, it’s difficult to understand a person if you write them off immediately. “Oh, okay. You’re like this definition of evil, but tell me all about yourself. There’s no way they will reveal who they are. And to me, [Aunt Lydia] is alive, certainly in spirit. She came from the book, from the novel.” So early on, Dowd made an unspoken pact with her character: “I will not judge. Please, tell me about you. And tell me all you can.” Edited April 25, 2018 by Umbelina 2 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 BBC Why the Handmaid's Tale is So Relevant Today By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Quote It wasn’t until last year, when The Handmaid’s Tale premiered on Hulu as a television series adaptation, that the work got its pop cultural due. The show’s producers changed details to bring the series into the present day, including modern touchstones like Uber, Tinder, cappuccinos, and Craigslist in flashbacks to Offred’s pre-handmaid life. But the series felt all the more chilling because of the massive shift in US politics with the election of Babbling Idiot, who was inaugurated just three months before the series premiered. Suddenly, the book and series’ major flashpoints felt more possible than ever: a government declaring martial law after an attack by Islamic extremists, a regime that systematically eliminates gay people, a society that prioritises procreation (and subjugation of women) above all else. “[H]ow eerily prescient that the Republic of Gilead was established by a coup when Christian fundamentalists, revulsed by an overly liberal, godless, and promiscuous society, assassinated the president, machine-gunned Congress, declared a national state of emergency, and laid blame to ‘Islamic fanatics,’” Joyce Carol Oates wrote in a Handmaid retrospective in 2006. “As in Orwell’s 1984, the Republic consolidates its strength by maintaining continual wars against demonised ‘enemies.’” Quote As The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its second season, it feels more vital than ever, even though the cultural landscape has once again shifted in a major way for women. Since the last series, the #metoo movement has taken hold, and Offred’s story is shifting with it. Without giving too much away about the second-season premiere, which goes, in some fashion, beyond the narrative in Atwood’s novel, Offred is now finding methods to take back her own power in the oppressive regime and seizing those moments in satisfying ways – not unlike women finding power in telling their own stories via #metoo and #timesup. Of course, this isn’t a coincidence; the producers of The Handmaid’s Tale series were aware of the changing women’s movement as they constructed this season. 3 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 (edited) Lot's of interviews with individual actors about their roles on Handmaid's Tale. I have not checked them all for any spoilers yet. Several interviews with actors about their roles on Handmaid's Tale. Nick Moira Moira (there are several other interview with her!) Emily Serena Joy One about the various production efforts this season http://variety.com/2018/artisans/production/handmaids-tale-season-2-1202785607/ At least three with Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Says The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 Is a Call to Action Margaret Atwood Talks Ambition: The Handmaid’s Tale Author Joins Boldfacers at the Tory Burch Foundation’s First-Ever Summit Margaret Atwood on How Babbling Idiot Helped ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ I'm very glad to see this show, and the actors/characters get so much attention! Quote Edited April 25, 2018 by Umbelina 2 Link to comment
Umbelina April 25, 2018 Share April 25, 2018 Quote Are we going to see more about the way that racial dynamics operate in Gilead this season? Absolutely. When we adapted the book, I made the decision to not make it an all-white world, as it was in the book, but to add diversity into Gilead to make it represent people of color visually and narratively in that world. We’ve been lucky that we have amazing characters and amazing actors and so we’re able to follow lots of different characters and we do that a lot more this season. The first season was so focused on Offred. I know that there was criticism in the first season [about how the show handled race]. I think me and all the writers took that to heart. It was very reasoned, thoughtful ― the internet gets a bad rap, but boy, they were very thoughtful and smart and polite and interested and seemingly trying to be helpful. It was a very helpful conversation for us to witness. Moving forward, we’re trying more and more to integrate race into the stories and address race in the stories, and I think we’ll hopefully keep improving. I think we did better this year than last year, and we’re always energized that there’s places to go in the show. The last thing we want to do is ignore something interesting. So, in a show that covers religion and women’s sovereignty over their own bodies and politics, we certainly have a lot of heavy loads. It’s always daunting to take on even those, but we’re thrilled that we have interesting places to go in Gilead still. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/handmaids-tale-season-2-bruce-miller_us_5adf9210e4b07be4d4c58f3e VERY good interview with the writer. Full of SPOILERS though. Quote It was something she used for the book. It’s what keeps [the show] from turning into torture pornography, and we’re not interested in making something that’s torturous for the sake of being torturous. I would be sick to my stomach if that’s what we ended up doing. We definitely try to show as little as possible when we do those things. Just enough to tell the story and make the emotions hit. 2 Link to comment
OtterMommy May 2, 2018 Share May 2, 2018 It doesn't look like we're leaving Gilead anytime soon... Hulu Renews ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 5 Link to comment
Umbelina May 2, 2018 Share May 2, 2018 The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: The Great Escape By Hillary Kelly Quote The show’s machinations are sometimes so extreme that you may be shaking your head a little bit right now, as if to say “Really? You’re making the intellectual leap from Pence to the Red Center?” But ask yourself what it would take right now for you to flee the country, to leave behind your home, your life, and your family. A domestic terrorist attack, followed by martial law? The overturning of Roe v. Wade? A law requiring a husband’s signature for birth control? With the luxury of hindsight, we ask why June didn’t get her family out earlier — after the crackdowns, the birth control restrictions, the fall of the government. And in this episode, she is wondering the same thing. Quote She has a workout regimen, her altar to the victims has expanded, and she’s burrowed into the newspaper’s archives, cutting out articles from recent years and pinning them up under categories like “Militarization” and “Curtailment of Civil Rights.” Like an FBI agent tracking a serial killer’s moves, she’s uncovering patterns that indicate how America turned into Gilead, how it crept up slowly and then exploded all at once. “You were there all the time,” she tells the clippings, “but no one noticed you.” This is so good, all of it. I can't resist just one more quote, but I could easily quote the entire thing. It's well worth a read. Quote Heather, Omar’s wife, is obviously dismayed at the thought of harboring a fugitive handmaid in their apartment. First, because no unusual movements go unnoticed in their neighborhood. Like neighbors in Nazi Germany, they’ve been frightened into informing on one another. Second, because Heather has been brainwashed into looking down upon the Handmaids — women she might have known or befriended in pre-Gilead life — as cold and uncaring. “I don’t know how you could give your kid up to somebody else. I would die first,” she tells June, who responds, “Yeah, I used to think that, too.” It isn’t just the Aunts or the Commanders who keep Handmaids in their place, it’s all of the other women who buy into the narrative that Gilead’s men are pushing. Which speaks to a particular point that Atwood has made several times about her novel: The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t about one type of oppression; she wanted to deal honestly with the ways in which women hold one another back and push one another down. 3 Link to comment
Valny May 4, 2018 Share May 4, 2018 On 5/2/2018 at 11:04 AM, OtterMommy said: It doesn't look like we're leaving Gilead anytime soon... Hulu Renews ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Yay! Another season of misery! I'm actually happy for a S3 but hopefully they'll be some light at this very dark tunnel 1 Link to comment
OtterMommy May 4, 2018 Share May 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, Valny said: Yay! Another season of misery! I'm actually happy for a S3 but hopefully they'll be some light at this very dark tunnel Yeah...I'm glad there will be a 3rd season, but I hope that they don't carry this show on too long. Honestly, I'd be happy if it wraps up in 3 seasons. I don't know how long I can take the torture... 8 Link to comment
nodorothyparker May 4, 2018 Share May 4, 2018 I'm not sure this is a show that I want to see running a long time either. I already have the last episode sitting unwatched because since I spoiled myself that we're heading back for what are likely to be more rounds of punishment and misery, I'm feeling absolutely no drive to get to it as I seriously question just how much more treating women terribly I'm interested in sitting though. There's also the whole issue that they pretty much have to show some significant movement in the story rather than week after week of abusing the household staff or high-pitched torture fests and they've just been given a whole new reason to continue to drag this out instead of doing that. 6 Link to comment
Anela May 5, 2018 Share May 5, 2018 On 4/25/2018 at 4:34 PM, Umbelina said: BBC Why the Handmaid's Tale is So Relevant Today By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/03/the-harpy-someone-please-tell-the-times-that-incels-are-terrorists/ I've just read this, after seeing another article in the NY Times, that tried to make a point for the incels that think women should be forced to date them. The male author continued to try to make his point on twitter. 5 Link to comment
boes May 5, 2018 Share May 5, 2018 11 hours ago, Anela said: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/05/03/the-harpy-someone-please-tell-the-times-that-incels-are-terrorists/ I've just read this, after seeing another article in the NY Times, that tried to make a point for the incels that think women should be forced to date them. The male author continued to try to make his point on twitter. That is just ..... horrifying. 5 Link to comment
Anela May 6, 2018 Share May 6, 2018 2 hours ago, boes said: That is just ..... horrifying. He ended up reposting an article from 2014, in which he said he didn't agree with them. I haven't read it yet. I can't remember what I saw on twitter, but I'll have another look when I'm more awake. That incel manifesto - I haven't looked up the rest of it. It was horrifying, the part that was mentioned in that article. Four years ago, I knew a guy online, who empathized with Eliot Rodger, and thought the State of California should help men like him to get girlfriends. 2 Link to comment
Umbelina May 9, 2018 Share May 9, 2018 (edited) Amanda Brugel and Rita, the Commander's Martha Warning. At least two spoilers in this article. Quote So, when Brugel was handed the script and finally learned what happened to June after she exited that van, her initial reaction was one of absolute horror. “I didn’t like it,” she says. “I really didn’t like it. I had such a specific connection to the book, it’s been with me for over 20 years and I had such a different idea for where I thought all of the characters would go. They weren’t even really well formed ideas, but, upon reading the script for the first time, I was like, ‘Well, this is not my Offred.’” Thankfully, though, the actress soon changed her mind. “I had to take my ego out of it for a bit,” admits Brugel, “and I realised that it’s so well done, like a beautiful game of chess. Quote Tell us a bit about Rita. What can fans expect from her in the new series? All of the fans were confused by Rita – she’s a bit of an enigma. They were left not knowing whether she was an Eye, whether she’d been drinking the Gilead Kool-Aid, or whether she was just a woman who was trying to keep her head down and stay safe and stay out of trouble. Season two, you really find out which side she stands for: whether she fights for Gilead, or whether she will stand and fight for humanity. And for me it is truly shocking, the way it turns out. The end result is incredible. Quote Rita doesn’t feature as much in the novel – she’s much more mysterious than other characters. With this in mind, where did you draw inspiration from? I wrote my thesis on the book in order to get into university – it’s part of my DNA. I read it when I was 15, I wrote a series of short stories on it, and, for me, Rita is an amalgamation for Rita and Cora (a character who does not appear in the first season). I was really inspired by the idea that there are these two women, two Marthas, who are coming at life from two very different angles. Edited May 9, 2018 by Umbelina 5 Link to comment
boes May 9, 2018 Share May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Umbelina said: Amanda Brugel and Rita, the Commander's Martha Thanks for bringing this, Umbelina, what a fascinating read. 2 Link to comment
Umbelina May 9, 2018 Share May 9, 2018 The Handmaid’s Tale Actor O-T Fagbenle Is Not Here for Your Luke-Bashing Quote “I was really glad to see those scripts come in,” Fagbenle said, “because I think Luke and June have a really genuine, beautiful relationship, which deserves to be protected and upheld. And it came up in imperfect circumstances.” Gilead’s medieval rules—that a marriage is null and void if either party has ever been divorced—might seem ridiculous, Fagbenle said, but “on some level, we all make that judgment." 1 Link to comment
Anela May 9, 2018 Share May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Umbelina said: The Handmaid’s Tale Actor O-T Fagbenle Is Not Here for Your Luke-Bashing He's missing the point. I don't care if they divorced, I care about the way he treated his wife. 3 Link to comment
Umbelina May 10, 2018 Share May 10, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Anela said: He's missing the point. I don't care if they divorced, I care about the way he treated his wife. He says much more than that in the article. I agree though, they've really made Luke an ass, but apparently even today, men don't see it that way. The actor certainly doesn't. Edited May 10, 2018 by Umbelina 2 Link to comment
charmed1 May 11, 2018 Share May 11, 2018 Praise Be! The little children have come to her. 6 Link to comment
marinw May 11, 2018 Share May 11, 2018 58 minutes ago, charmed1 said: Praise Be! The little children have come to her. As Homer Simpson would say, the ironing is delicious. 4 Link to comment
marinw May 12, 2018 Share May 12, 2018 Interesting article from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/12/why-the-handmaids-tale-marks-a-new-chapter-in-feminist-dystopias 3 Link to comment
Umbelina May 23, 2018 Share May 23, 2018 The Handmaid’s Tale: Inside an Explosive Episode That Changes Everything Show-runner Bruce Miller and actress Yvonne Strahovski break down this season’s most riveting installment yet—and what lies ahead. by Laura Bradley Quote The explosion was both a symbolic and a literal attack on the new Rachel and Leah Center, a larger version of the facility used to train handmaids like Offred. In the episode, Aunt Lydia wistfully considers how many more girls she’ll be able to “process” at the new center, now that the government has decided against attempting to find a more humane way to curb low birthrates. “The fact that they’re institutionalizing [the handmaid system] kind of takes away that shred of humanity and decency and just human kindness from them,” Miller said. “But it also shows the stakes for the handmaids, because these handmaids now are the only ones who are going to remember a time before Gilead. The next generation, the ones who are going to be trained at this center, are—as far as we’re concerned—much further away from any kind of rebellion because they don’t remember any other life.” 2 Link to comment
GraceK May 24, 2018 Share May 24, 2018 (edited) On 5/23/2018 at 12:08 PM, Umbelina said: The Handmaid’s Tale: Inside an Explosive Episode That Changes Everything Show-runner Bruce Miller and actress Yvonne Strahovski break down this season’s most riveting installment yet—and what lies ahead. by Laura Bradley Thanks for this article!!’ What fantastic insight into Serena Joy. I’m interested in the part where Yvonne said that if she cracks, she will crack big time. That would be great to see!! Edited May 24, 2018 by GraceK 3 Link to comment
Eyes High May 26, 2018 Share May 26, 2018 The cast did a Christmas card for the crew, and it's the greatest thing ever: 14 Link to comment
ElectricBoogaloo May 31, 2018 Share May 31, 2018 Madeline Brewer discusses The Handmaid’s Tale: 3 Link to comment
Hanahope June 4, 2018 Share June 4, 2018 Is paying for Hulu the only way to watch the show in the US? Even for the first season? Link to comment
Umbelina June 4, 2018 Share June 4, 2018 12 minutes ago, Hanahope said: Is paying for Hulu the only way to watch the show in the US? Even for the first season? It's the only way I know of. Link to comment
jennblevins June 4, 2018 Share June 4, 2018 iTunes had the first season last time I checked. Link to comment
Becks June 4, 2018 Share June 4, 2018 9 hours ago, Hanahope said: Is paying for Hulu the only way to watch the show in the US? Even for the first season? The first season was also released on dvd and blu-ray. Link to comment
Hanahope June 4, 2018 Share June 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Becks said: The first season was also released on dvd and blu-ray. And I can get them from Netflix! Perfect! Thanks 1 Link to comment
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